National Patriotic Front (Zimbabwe)

The National Patriotic Front (NPF) is a Zimbabwean political party founded on 19 November 2017 by leaders of the expelled G40 faction of the ZANU-PF party, which included the exiled Jonathan Moyo, Patrick Zhuwao and Saviour Kasukuwere.

[1] The party denounced the military takeover in November 2017, known as Operation Restore Legacy, that led to President Robert Mugabe's resignation.

[1] In March 2018, retired Brigadier Ambrose Mutinhiri resigned from parliament and left the ZANU-PF to become president of the NPF, and shortly thereafter Ambrose Mutinhiri was announced as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections.

[1] In late May 2018 a video of Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwawo discussing the NPF's internal problems was live-streamed online.

The faction led by Eunice Sandi Moyo is closely aligned with the Mugabe family, it won a seat in the July 2018 general election when Masango Matambanadzo won the Kwekwe Central constituency, for which he had represented the ZANU-PF until leaving the party earlier the same year.