The late Zimbabwean politician Vitalis Zvinavashe was born

On this day in 1943, the late former commander of the Defense Forces Vitalis Zvinavashe was born. He joined the Rhodesian Bush War and went in 1967 and in 1968 for military training in Tanzania. He was elected as a ZANU-PF Central Committe member. He ran the parliamentary election in Gutu district in 2008. for this reason, in the year 2008, he told ZANU-PF candidates that they have to face the reality that MDC had won the elections.He blamed Mugabe saying, most of the people of Masvingo did not favour him, hence the parliamentary candidates suffered as collateral damage.