The conflict Hostile_encounter pitted Hostile_encounter three forces against one another : the Rhodesian government , led by Ian Smith ( later the Zimbabwe-Rhodesian government of Bishop Abel Muzorewa ) ; the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army , the military wing of Robert Mugabe 's Zimbabwe African National Union ; and the Zimbabwe People 's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo 's Zimbabwe African People 's Union .

The war and its subsequent Internal Settlement , signed Sign_agreement in 1978 by Smith and Muzorewa , led to Causation the implementation Action of universal suffrage in June 1979 and the end Process_end of white minority rule in Rhodesia , which was renamed Name_conferral Zimbabwe Rhodesia under a black majority government .