February

• 6 February - 7 white Catholic missionaries killed by guerillas at St. Paul's Mission, Musami.
• 24 February - Catholic Bishop of Umtali the Rt Rev. Donal Lamont
  Donal Lamont
  Bishop Donal Lamont was an Irish-Rhodesian Catholic bishop and a Roman Catholic missionary to Africa who was best known for his fight against white minority rule in Rhodesia .-Early days:...
  
   had a 10-year prison sentence reduced to 4 by the Appeal Court in Salisbury. 3 of the 4 years were suspended. He was convicted in 1976 of failing to report the presence of terrorists.

April

• 23 April - Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
  , Zimbabwe African National Union
  Zimbabwe African National Union
  The Zimbabwe African National Union was a militant organization that fought against the standing government in Rhodesia, formed as a split from the Zimbabwe African People's Union...
  
   (ZANU) leader announces that ZANU and Zimbabwe African People's Union
  Zimbabwe African People's Union
  The Zimbabwe African People's Union was a militant organization and political party that fought for the national liberation of Zimbabwe from its founding in 1961 until it merged with the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front in December 1987....
  
   (ZAPU) are to merge as the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front
  Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front
  The Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front has been the ruling party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and retaining the name ZANU-PF...
  
  

August

• 6 August - A 30 kg bomb exploded in a Woolworths
  Woolworths (South Africa)
  Woolworths Holdings Limited is a South African chain of retail stores and one of the largest in the country, modeled on Marks & Spencer of the United Kingdom . This relationship with Britain's Marks and Spencer was formed after the Second World War, which led to the retailer buying all of the...
  
   store in Salisbury killing 11 people and wounding 76. The victims were black, white and coloured. The store on the corner of Pioneer Street, and Bank Street was also badly damaged.

November

• 23–25 November - 3,000 ZANLA guerillas killed in raids by Rhodesian Security Forces on camps in Mozambique
  Mozambique
  Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...
  
  . These raids were code named Operation Dingo
  Operation Dingo
  Operation Dingo, also known as the Chimoio massacre was a major raid conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against the ZANLA headquarters of Robert Mugabe at Chimoio and a smaller camp at Tembue in Mozambique from November 23–25, 1977...
  
  , also known as the Chimoio Raids and the Chimoio massacre.