Nine months after it had been founded, ZAPU was also banned by the government, and in September 1962 Mugabe and other senior party officials were arrested and restricted to their home districts for three months
Patatha miyezi isanu ndi inayi chikhazikitsidwe, ZAPU idaletsedwanso ndi boma, ndipo mu September 1962 Mugabe ndi akuluakulu ena achipanichi adamangidwa ndikutsekeredwa m'maboma kwa miyezi itatu