1965 – Chief of Staff, ZAPU. Member of High Command ZIPRA 1972 – Military/Political Commissar, ZANU 1973 – Chief Commandant: Training and Personnel, ZANLA. 1977/79 – Secretary of Manpower Planning and Labour, ZANU 1980 – Member of Parliament for Mashonaland West, ZANU (PF) 1980 – Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Welfare Robson Manyika was […]
Category Archives: ANYL
NYAMASVISVA WILLIAM MUKARATI (1920-1962)
1957 Vice-Chairman, Highfield Branch, ANYL. 1960 Vice-Chairman, Salisbury (Harare) District, NDP. 1961 Organising Secretary, Mashonaland Province, ZAPU. 1963 Deputy Chairman for Presidential Affairs and Secretary for Welfare, PCC. 1975 (Sept.) Treasurer-General (Vice), ANC (Nkomo). William Mukarati was born on 28 January 1925 at Marimba on the western outskirts of Salisbury (Harare). His father was a […]
JOSIAH TERRY MALULEKE
1953 Secretary-General, African Commercial and General Workers’ Union. 1962 General Secretary, ATUC. Terry Maluleke was born in the Fort Victoria (Masvingo) District in 1928. He was the second-born, and eldest son, in a family of four boys and two girls. He was educated by Swiss missionaries at Valdiza Mission in South Africa. When his father […]
DR EDSON FURATIDZAYI CHISINGAITWI SITHOLE
1956-57 Interim Secretary-General, later Secretary, Harare Branch, ANYL. 1957-59 Secretary, Harare Branch, ANCongress. 1964 Publicity Secretary, ZANU. 1972 Publicity Secretary, ANC. 1974 Chairman, Editorial Committee, ANC. 1974 Member, Central Committee, ANC. Edson Sithole was born on 5 June 1935 in the Eastern Districts of Rhodesia. His parents were “typical peasants” (his own phrase) and […]
DUNDUZA CHISIZA (1920-1962)
1955 A founder of the ANYL. Although born in Karanga, Nyasaland (now Malawi), Dunduza Chisiza played for a short time a leading role in the development of African nationalism in Southern Rhodesia during the 1950s. He was educated at the Livingstonia Mission and Aggrey Memorial College, Uganda. He worked during 1949 as a clerk in […]
JAMES ROBERT DAMBAZA CHIKEREMA
1956-57 First President, African National Youth League (ANYL). 1957-59 Vice-President, ANC. 1961-62 Executive Member, ZAPU (although in detention). 1964 Acting President, PCC (during detention of Joshua Nkomo). 1972 Chairman, FROLIZI. 1974 (Dec.) Member, Executive Committee of ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Secretary, ZLC. James Chikerema was born in May 1925 at Kutama Mission near Salisbury (Harare). His parents were of the Shona tribe; his father, the first […]