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#Zimbabwe #ZimLestWeForget One of the country’s most eminent sons and hero who died in the war and whose remains are at the National Shrine is the Chairman of the ZANU, Cde Herbert Wiltshire Pfumandini Chitepo. Cde Chitepo died on #18March1975 in #Lusaka, #Zambia, when a bomb planted on his car shattered the morning at 150 Muramba Road in Chilenje South. This was after his fiery language and his role in developing Zanu’s new military strategy inevitably made him a target for assassination by the Rhodesian regime. Cde Chitepo and Silas Shamiso, one of his bodyguards, were killed instantly. Sadat Kufamadzuba, his other bodyguard, was injured. Although his murderer remains unidentified, Rhodesian author Peter Stiff says that a former British SAS soldier, Hugh Hind, was responsible. Cde Chitepo was born in Mutasa District, Manicaland Province on June 15, 1923 - the year that the British South Africa Company, a legacy of Cecil John Rhodes, lost its grip on the country they called Southern Rhodesia. Cde Chitepo was the first black citizen of Rhodesia to become a barrister. This was where he met his wife Victoria a heroine who was also interred at the national shrine. After teaching for a year, he resumed his studies to graduate with a BA degree from Fort Hare University College in 1949. In 1954, Cde Chitepo became the then Rhodesia’s first black lawyer. On returning to Rhodesia in 1954, he practised as a lawyer and defended African nationalists such as Ndabaningi Sithole. In 1961, he served as legal adviser to the late Father Zimbabwe, Dr Joshua Nkomo, founder of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU), at the Southern Rhodesia Constitutional Conference in London. In May 1962, ZAPU was banned because of militarism and Cde Chitepo was persuaded to go into voluntary exile to escape possible detention. He became Tanzania’s first African Director of Public Prosecutions. The Sithole and Nkomo factions of ZAPU split apart in July 1963. Dr Nkomo’s supporters founded the PCC-ZAPU and favoured a more militaristic approach. At Zanu’s first congress in Gweru in 1964, Cde Chitepo was elected in absentia as national chairman. He held this post until December 7, 1974 when the Lusaka Accord was signed. In 1966, Cde Chitepo decided to leave his prestigious job in Tanzania and move to Zambia to devote himself full-time to reorganising the party and beginning the armed struggle in earnest. It was a decision that separated him from some of his contemporaries in academic institutions and in comfortable jobs who had decided not join nationalistic politics. It was also a role that radicalised his views. Under the guidance of Cde Chitepo as Zanu’s most senior leader, the party shaped its military wing, #ZANLA, under the command of national hero Cde Josiah Magama Tongogara. Both Zanu and Zapu chose to leave the country and reorganise and form military armies outside Rhodesia, although they chose different countries to set up their base. ZAPU based itself in Zambia where it organised #ZIPRA. They allied with the Soviet Union and organised a vanguard of highly trained soldiers. In 1972, he co-ordinated war operations with FRELIMO and opened up the north-eastern region of Zimbabwe as a new and effective war frontier. Cde Chitepo was reburied at the National Heroes Acre on August 11, 1981. In the country’s history of the liberation struggle, Cde Chitepo is known for insisting that the only language the Rhodesian prime minister Ian Smith would understand was violence. “Zimbabwe was taken from us through bloodshed. Only bloodshed - a bloody #Chimurenga, involving four and half million of us can restore Zimbabwe to its owners” The Herald Zimbabwe His effort will never be forgotten 🫡🇿🇼 ZANU PF He sacrificed all for our better tomorrow🕊️ #chimurenga✊🏿

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