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Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (June 19, 1917 – July 1, 1999) was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union from the Ndebele tribe. He was affectionately known in Zimbabwe as Father Zimbabwe,Umdala Wethu,Umafukufuku, or Chibwechitedza ("the slippery rock") and is widely recognized as the first black leader in what became Zimbabwe. Educated in South Africa where he befriended Nelson Mandela, he returned to what was then Rhodesia in 1948, as an official with the railway union. He founded a series of freedom movements, culminating in the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) in 1962. All were banned by the colonial authorities. A split the following year with fellow revolutionary, Robert Mugabe, led to years of bitter rivalry between these two men. Both spent most of the next decade in prison. Released due to pressure from South Africa in 1974, Nkomo led his supporters in the Rhodesian Bush War against the illegal white-minority government that had declared unilateral independence in 1956. Nkomo was assisted by the Soviet Union. Mugabe, also

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Joshua Nkomo

School / Education

Primary education at Tsholotsho School.
1941: He then went to South Africa where he did his secondary education at a Durban based college, Adams College.
1944: Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Science, Johannesburg. Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Sociology.

Service / Career

Nkomo started his political career while studying at Jan Hofmeyr. It was there that he met some of the influential leaders of the African National Congress (ANC) such as Nelson Mandela whose ideas and doctrine influenced him and sharpened his future political career.^[3]^[1]

Upon his return to Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1947 or 1948, Nkomo then started working for the Rhodesian Railways as a Social Worker. It was at the Rhodesia Railways that he started active politics as a trade unionist when he became Secretary of the Railway Workers' Association (later the RAWU) in 1951. He had earlier in 1949 attended the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress meeting ^[4] where his love for politics only increased. His popularity grew as a t

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Joshua Nkomo

Zimbabwean politician (1917–1999)

Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1990 until his death in 1999. He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from 1961 until it merged in 1987 with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF after an internal military crackdown called Gukurahundi in western Zimbabwe, mostly on ethnic Ndebele ZAPU supporters.

He was a leading trade union leader, who progressed on to become president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government. After his release in 1974, ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, along with the splinter rival ZANU, created in 1963.^[1]

In 1983, fearing for his life in the early stages of the Gukurahundi, Nkomo fled the country. Later in 1987, he controversially signed the Unity Accord allowing ZAPU to merge with ZANU to stop the genocide.^[2]

Nkomo earned many ni