Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Nhoroondo: Zita rokuti "Zimbabwe" rakabva mushoko rechiShona rinoreva Great Zimbabwe, guta rekare raiva matongo riri kumaodzanyemba kwakadziva kumabvazuva kwenyika yacho uye rava kunzi inzvimbo yakachengetedzwa. Dzidziso mbiri dzakasiyana dzinotaura nezvekwakabva shoko racho. Manyuko mazhinji anotaura kuti "Zimbabwe" rinobva muzwi rokuti dzimba-dza-mabwe, rinoshandurwa kubva mumutauro wechiKaranga wechiShona se"dzimba dzematombo" (dzimba = chiverengero chezita rokuti imba, "imba"; mabwe = chiverengero chezita rokuti bwe, "dombo"). Vanhu vechiShona vanotaura chiKaranga vanogara pedyo neGreat Zimbabwe mudunhu remazuva ano reMasvingo. Nyanzvi yezvinocherwa mumatongo Peter Garlake anoti "Zimbabwe" inomiririra chimiro chakakonzerwa che dzimba-hwe, zvinoreva kuti "dzimba dzinokudzwa" mumutauro weZezuru weShona uye kazhinji inoreva dzimba dzemachinda kana makuva. Zimbabwe yaimbozivikanwa seSouthern Rhodesia (1898), Rhodesia (1965), uye Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979). Kushandiswa kwokutanga kwakanyorwa kwe "Zimbabwe" sezwi renyika rinoreva kubva muna 1960 semari yemari yenyika yevatema Michael Mawema, ane Zimbabwe National Party yakava yekutanga kushandisa zita iri muna 1961. Zita rokuti "Rhodesia" - rakabva pazita remhuri yaCecil Rhodes, munhu akatanga kuronga kuti Britain itore nyika iyi munguva yekupera kwezana remakore rechi19 - rakaratidzwa nevemunyika dzemuAfrica sechinhu chisina kukodzera pamusana pekubva kwaro nekutonga. Maererano naMawema, varwi vemarudzi vatema vakaita musangano muna 1960 kuti vasarudze rimwe zita renyika yacho, vachikumbira mazita akadai sa "Matshobana" ne "Monomotapa" vasati vafunga kuti "Zimbabwe" ndiyo yaizoshandiswa. Imwe nzira, yakatangwa nevanotsigira nyika muMatabeleland, yakanga iri "Matopos", ichireva Matopos Hills kumaodzanyemba kweBulawayo. Pakutanga zvaive zvisina kujeka kuti izwi rakasarudzwa raizoshandiswa sei - tsamba yakanyorwa naMawema muna 1961 inotaura nezve "Zimbabweland" - asi "Zimbabwe" yakanga yakanyatsogadziriswa na1962 kuti ive izwi rinonyanya kufarirwa renharaunda yevatema. Mukubvunzurudzwa muna 2001, mutsigiri werudzi rwevatema Edson Zvobgo akayeuka kuti Mawema akataura nezvezita racho panguva yemusangano wezvematongerwo enyika, "uye rakaramba riripo, uye...  Mubvunzo: Zimbabwe yakabva kupi?
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