Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park (Sotho: "Musi oa Thunya" [Mosi wa Tunya] ""The Smoke Which Thunders""), is an UNESCO World Heritage site that is home to one half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya "— 'The Smoke Which Thunders' —" known worldwide as Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The river forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, so the falls are shared by the two countries, and the park is 'twin' to the Victoria Falls National Park on the Zimbabwean side. ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language and the name is now used throughout Zambia, and in parts of
Military history of Zimbabwe military alliance between ZAPU and ZANU during the war against white minority rule. Both movements contributed their respective military forces: ZAPU's military wing was known as Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) which operated mainly from Zambia and somewhat in Angola, and ZANU's guerrillas were known as Zimbabwe National African Liberation Army (ZANLA) which formed in 1965 in Tanzania, but operated mainly from camps around Lusaka, Zambia and later from Mozambique. Objective of the Patriotic Front was to overthrow the white minority regime by means of political pressure and military force. In 1979 another airliner was shot down and the Rhodesians