1960 Publicity Secretary, NDP 1961 (Dec.) Publicity Secretary ZAPU 1963 Secretary-General ZANU 1974 (Dec.) Member Central Committee, ANC. Robert Mugabe was born at the Kutama Mission in the Zvimba TTL in 1928. His father, who was a labourer, was a practicing Roman Catholic and Robert was brought up in the same faith. He was educated […]
Category Archives: ZAPU
ROBSON DAFORD MANYIKA
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 […]
SIMON VENGAI MUZENDA
1953 Secretary-General of British African Voice Association (‘African Voice’) 1961 Chairman Umvuma Branch of NDP 1961 Provincial Organizing Secretary NDP (Victoria Province) 1962 Provincial Administrative Secretary, ZAPU 1964 Deputy Organizing Secretary, ZANU 1971 Secretary for Law and Order, ANC 1972 Deputy Administrative Secretary, ANC (Lusaka) 1975 Member Central Committee, ZANU 1980 M.P. for Midlands. Minister […]
ERNEST RUSUNUNGUKO KADUNGURE
1960 Youth wing leader NDP St. Augustines High School, 1962 Secretary of a Harare Youth Branch of ZAPU 1977 Central Committee ZANU, in charge of Education and Culture.1 1980 MP (ZANU PF) for Midlands 1980 Minister of Transport and Power, Zimbabwe. “The struggle was bitter and hard. We will always remember those who fell. Their […]
EMMERSON DAMBUDZO MNANGAGWA
1962 – Active with UNIP in Lusaka, Zambia. 1963 – Student leader in ZANU. 1964 – Member of “Crocodile” military group. 1976 – With ZANU (PF) at Geneva. 1977 – Central Committee, ZANU (PF) as Special Assistant, Administration, to the President. 1980 – Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, Zimbabwe By the time […]
ALFRED NIKITA MANGENA
ZAPU ZIPA (1976) Born in the Belingwe district, he is aged about 30. A member of ZAPU, he is one of the leading military commanders. Interviewed in Geneva on 1 November 1976 he maintained that ZAPU and ZANU were operating separately under their own commands (The Rhodesia Herald, 2 November 1976).
EDDISON JONAS MUDADIRWA ZVOBGO
1961 Organising Secretary for the NDP, Southern Province1962 Representative of ZAPU in USA. 1964 Deputy Secretary-General, ZANU. 1971-72 Deputy Secretary-General, ANC. 1972 Principal Overseas Representative, ANC. 1973 Representative of ZANU in USA.1977 Deputy Secretary for Information and Publicity, ZANU (Mozambique)1979 Delegate and Party Spokesman, ZANU, at Lancaster House1980 MP for Victoria1980 Minister of Local Government and Housing, Zimbabwe Eddison […]
DR TICHAFA STEPHEN PARIRENYATWA (1927-1962)
1962 Deputy President, ZAPU. Born at Rusape in 1927, Tichafa Parirenyatwa spent his early childhood as a herder of cattle. After receiving his early education at Mrewa Mission School he attended the Howard Institute and Adams College Natal. After his return to Southern Rhodesia he taught for one year and was then assisted by the Methodist […]
LEOPOLD TAKAWIRA (1916-1970)
1960 Chairman, Harare Branch, NDP. 1960 Director of International Relations, NDP. 1961 Secretary for External Afairs, ZAPU. 1963 Vice-President, ZANU. Leopold Takawira was born at Chilimanzi in the Victoria District in 1916. He was educated at primary schools in Southern Rhodesia and at Marianhill in Natal. He qualified as a teacher and, after serving for several years as an assistant […]
THE REV. NDABANINGI SITHOLE
1960 Treasurer, NDP. 1961 Treasurer and National Chairman, ZAPU. 1963 President, ZANU. 1974 Member Central Committee, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Chairman, ZLC. Ndabaningi Sithole was born on 21 July 1920 at Nyamandhlovu, north of Bulwayo. He was the son of Jim Sithole (a member of the Ndau tribe from Gazaland) and Siyapi Tshuma of Nyamandhlovu. In 1930 his father, who […]
SAMUEL JONAH MUNODAWAFA
1960-61 District Chairman, Fort Victoria (Masvingo), NDP. 1961 -62 Provincial Chairman, Fort Victoria (Masvingo), ZAPU. 1963 National Chairman, PCC. 1972 National Chairman, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) National Chairman, ANC (Nkomo). Samuel Munodawafa was born at Morgenster Mission near Fort Victoria (Masvingo) on 14 March 1917. He was the eldest child of a teacher-evangelist who served with […]
TENJIWE VIRGINIA LESABE
1962 Chairwoman of Barbourfields Women’s Branch, ZAPU. 1963 District Chairwoman of Women’s League, PCC. 1974 (Dec.) Deputy Secretary for Women’s Affairs, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Member of Central Committee, ANC (Nkomo). 1976 (Sept.) Deputy Secretary for Education ANC (Nkomo). Tenjiwe Virginia Lesabe was born a Khumalo1 at Makokoba Clinic, Bulawayo, on 5 January 1932. Shewas the […]
EDGAR TEKERE
1959 Member of ANCongress. 1960 Founder Member of NDP and Secretary for Salisbury (Harare) District 1961 Secretary, Salisbury (Harare) District Council, ZAPU. 1963 Chairman, Nkoba Branch, ZANU. 1964 (May) Deputy Secretary for Youth and Culture ZANU. 1975 Secretary for Central Committee ZANU 1977 Secretary-General ZANU 1979 Delegate to Lancaster House, ZANU 1980 M.P. for Mashonaland […]
MOTON DIZZY PAUL MALIANGA
1960-61 Vice-President, NDP. 1962 Founder Member and Secretary for Public Affairs, ZAPU. 1963 External Representative, ZANU (Cairo). 1964 Secretary for Youth and Culture, ZANU. 1974 Member Central Committee, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) National Chairman, ANC (Muzorewa). Moton Malianga (brother of Washington) was born on 8 June 1930 at Old Umtali (Mutare) Mission (the fifth child in […]
WILLIE DZAWANDA MUSARURWA
1960-61 Founder Member and National Executive Member, NDP. 1963 Representative of ZAPU in Northern Rhodesia (Zambia). 1963 Public Relations Secretary, PCC. 1974 Member Central Committee, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Publicity Secretary, ANC (Nkomo). Willie Musarurwa was born on 24 November 1927 in the Zvimba Reserve. Sinoia (Chinhoyi) District. He was the fifth child in a family […]
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 […]
WASHINGTON MALIANGA
1960 Representative in London and Cairo of NDP. 1961 Secretary General, ZAPU. 1963 Publicity Secretary and founder member, ZANU. (brother of Moton) was born at the Old Umtali (Mutare) Mission in 1926. He was the third in a family of nine boys and one girl. His father was a primary school teacher and evangelist with […]
STANLEY GARIKAYI PARIREWA
1961 Chairman, Salisbury (Harare) District, NDP. 1961-62 Chairman, Salisbury (Harare) District, ZAPU. 1965 ZANU Representative in Malawi. 1975 (Sept.) Chairman, Education, Welfare and Health, ZLA. Stanley Parirewa was born in Salisbury (Harare) on 28 January 1928. His father was at one time a cook for the Governor, Sir Herbert Stanley (hence his first name) and […]
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 […]
JOSEPH WILFRED MSIKA
1957 National Treasurer, African National Congress. 1962 Secretary for Youth Affairs, ZAPU. 1963 Secretary for External Affairs, PCC. 1974 (Dec.) Member Central Committee, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Secretary-General, (Nkomo) ANC. 1976 Delegate to Geneva 1976/80 Secretary General ZAPU PF. 1980 Member of Senate. Minister of Natural resources and Water Development. Joseph Wilfred Msika was born on 6 December 1923 in the Chiweshe […]
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 […]
SYLVESTER TAWONEZWI BGONI
1961 Chairman, Mufakose Branch, NDP. 1962 Secretary, Mufakose Branch, ZAPU. 1963 Salisbury (Harare) District Chairman, PCC 1972 Secretary for Youth Affairs, ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Secretary for Youth, ANC (Nkomo). 1975 (Sept.) Member of Central Committee, ANC {Nkomo). 1976 (Jan.) Secretary for Presidential Affairs, ANC (Nkomo). Sylvester Bgoni was born on 8 August 1934 in […]
LAZARUS NKALA (1927-1975)
1957-59 Treasurer, Bulawayo Branch, ANC. 1960-61 Treasurer, Bulawayo Branch, NDP. 1961-63 Bulawayo District Chairman, ZAPU. 1963-64 National Organising Secretary, PCC. 1974 (Dec.) Member of the Central Committee of ANC. 1975 (Sept.) Organising Secretary, ANC (Nkomo). Lazarus Nkala was born on 26 February 1927 in the Filabusi District of Rhodesia. His father was a school teacher and lay preacher with the American Brethren […]
CLEMENT MUCHACHI
1961-64 National Organising Secretary, ZAPU and PCC. 1963-71 Director of Youth and Culture, PCC. 1975 (Sept.) Secretary for External Affairs, ANC (Nkomo). 1976 Delegate to Geneva Conference 1980 PF M.P. for Midlands 1980 Minister of Public Works, Zimbabwe Government Clement Muchachi was born at Selukwe (Shurugwi) on 19 August 1925. He was the eighth child in a family of nine […]
JOSHUA NKOMO
1952-59 ANCongress. 1960-61 President, NDP. 1961-62 President, ZAPU. 1975 (Sept.) President, African National Council (Nkomo). 1976 President, ZAPU (PF) 1980 M.P. Midlands – PF 1980 Minister of Home Affairs, Zimbabwe Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was born in June 1917, in the Semokwe Reserve, Matabeleland. He was the third child, a sister having been born […]
CHARLTON CEZANI NGCEBETSHA (1909-1977)
1962 National Councillor, ZAPU. 1971 Founder Member, African National Council. 1972 Secretary-General, African National Council. Charlton Ngcebetsha was born of Fingo parents at Butterworth, Transkei, on 28 February 1909. Both his parents were school teachers and members of the Methodist Church. He was the second of 10 children. He was educated at Lovedale, near Alice, […]
ENOCH DUMBUTSHENA
1948 Vice-President, African National Congress.1960-61 NDP Executive Member.1962-72 ZAPU Executive Member (London Representative).1972-74 FROLIZI Official.1975 (Sept.) ANC (Muzorewa) in Lusaka.Enoch Dumbutshena was born on 25 April 1920 at Marshall Hartley Mission near Makwiro. His father, Job Dumbutshena, was a member of the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union1 during the 1930s. His mother, who was prominent […]