Josiah tongogara

Solomon mujuru
Rhodesia
Herbert Chitepo, both as abstract painter and epic poet.

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Herbert Chitepo

Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo igamba rehondo yeChimurenga yakarwiwa nechinangwa chekusunungura nyika yeZimbabwe kubva kuutongi hweudzvanyiriri hwevarungu vakabva kuBritain.

Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo (15 Chikumi 1923 – 18 Kurume 1975) akanga ari mutungamiri weZimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) rinova bato rairwira kuzvitonga kwevatema munguva dzeRhodesia. Herbert Chtepo wakaurawa mugore ra1975 mwedzi waKurume. Hazvizivikanwe kuti Chitepo wakaurayiwa nani. Munyori wenguva dzeRhodesia anonzi Peter Stiff anoti musoja wemawuto British anonzi, Hugh Hind ndiye anonzi akauraya Herbert Chitepo.

Chitepo ndiye akava munhu mutema wekutanga munguva yeRhodesia kuva barrister; rinova rimwe danho rohugweta.

Kukura kwavo

[chinjirudza | chinjirudza mabviro]

VaChitepo vakazvarwa kuWatsomba mudunhu reInyanga; akanga ari werudzi rweva Manyika. Akadzidza pazvikoro zvinoti St David's Mission School (Bonda), St Augustine's School (Penhalonga) vachizoenda kuAdam's College (Natal, South Africa) kwaadzidza kuvamudzidzisi mugore 1945.

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1960-61 National Council Member, NDP.
1963 National Chairman, ZANU.

Herbert Chitepo was born on 5 June 1923 in the Inyanga district of Rhodesia. His father died when
Herbert was three years old and he was brought up at St David’s Mission, Bonda. He received his early education at the mission and later moved to St Augustine’s, Penhalonga. In 1943 he went to Adams College, Natal, to train as a primary school teacher. Returning to Rhodesia he taught for one year at St Augustine’s but then decided to go back to Adams College in order to matriculate.

He attended Fort Hare University College, South Africa, from 1947 to 1949, graduating B.A. Thereafter he went to London where he worked as a Research Assistant in Shona at the London School of Oriental and African Studies. He studied at King’s College, London and at the Inns of Court, becoming a barrister in 1954.

Returning to Salisbury (Harare) he set up in private practice, a decision which required an amendment to the Land Apportionment Act to enable him to occupy chambers in the city centre. He was admitted as

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Herbert Chitepo

Zimbabwean politician

Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo (15 June 1923 – 18 March 1975) was a Zimbabwean politician and nationalist leader who led the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) until he was assassinated in March 1975. Although his assassin remains unidentified, the Rhodesian author Peter Stiff says that a former soldier of the British Special Air Service (SAS), Hugh Hind, was responsible.^[1]

Chitepo became the first black citizen of Rhodesia to become a barrister.^[2]

Early years

Chitepo was born in Watsomba village in the Mutasa District of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe on 15 June 1923.^[3] His family came from the Manyika clan (Samanyika) of the Shona people. He was educated at St David's Mission School, Bonda, St Augustine's School, Penhalonga and then at Adams College, Natal, South Africa, where he qualified as a teacher in 1945. This was where he met Victoria Mahamba-Sithole, a South African whom he married in 1955.^[3]

Early career

After teaching for a year, he resumed his studi