On this day in 1993, a Zimbabwean Association Football Player Kudakwashe Mahachi was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Mahachi has been making waves and raising the Zimbabwean national flag. He plays for Mamelodi Sundowns and the Zimbabwe National Soccer Team as a Midfielder. He has been a key figure in the warriors team. He helped the […]
Read More →On this day in 1928, the late Zimbabwean nationalist Nathan Shamhuyarira was born. In 1968, he was appointed as ZANU secretary for external affairs.
Read More →On this day in 2019, Zimbabwe’s 95 year old former leader Robert Gabriel Mugabe was laid to rest at his rural home in Zvimba, in a low-key Roman Catholic ceremony and only family members to witness his final resting place.The public as well as the government expected that the leader will be buried at the […]
Read More →On this day in 1948, Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (modern day Harare, Zimbabwe) and was one of five brothers in a Rhodesian farming family. The family moved from Kent to Rhodesia in 1933. Fletcher served his national service as a Rifleman in the Rhodesia Regiment between 1966 and 1967 […]
Read More →On this day in 2017, in Harare, pastor Evan Mawarire was freed after being arrested for subversion. He had been detained for protesting against how Mugabe handled the economic state of Zimbabwe. He get another trial for protesting university student in June that same year.
Read More →On this day in 1937 in Harare Michael Gibbs was born, as he grew his passion in music increased. He took scholarship at the Lennox School of Jazz. From 1970 to 1974 he was a musical director at BBC comedy progam “The Goodies”.
Read More →On this day in Harare in 1972, Zimbabwean footballer Vitalis Takawira was born. Takawira rose to fame playing for popular Harare outfit, Dynamos, where he was top goal scorer for five seasons. Takawira was the top scorer in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League three times. In USA he worked as a coach and for this […]
Read More →On this day in 1970, politician Savior Kasukuwere was born Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe. Kasukuwere has held several ministerial posts in government under Robert Mugabe, however, he was ousted from the ZANU-PF party in 2017 by the party’s central committee.
Read More →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 […]
Read More →On this day in 1955, the late Zimbabwean Dendera Music Artist, Vocalist, Guitarist and a Performer was born in Harare, Zimbabwe. He was part of a group of children that were abducted during the liberation struggle. Simon started to launch his career in the late 1970s, together with his brother Naison. His music was viewed […]
Read More →On this day in 1952, the late Zimbabwean musician, Oliver Mtukudzi was born in Zimbabwe’s populous Highfield suburb, Harare. He was the first born in a family of seven siblings. Mtukudzi was from a musical family, as both his parents were singers. This meant he grew up in a musical environment where he started to […]
Read More →On this day in 1992, real name Ntokozo Tshuma was born. As a football he moved from Bulawayo to Washington D.C after aquiring his partnership between the charity Grassroot Soccer and elite boarding school in 2008.
Read More →On this day in 2020, Dr Magombeyi who was spearheading an organisation leading a series of protests demanding salary increases was abducted. he was found 4 days later outside Harare.
Read More →On this day in 2014, Penelope Makomeya’s (a ZANU PF youth leader ) house was petrol bombed. Makomeya had also been attacked on 24 August by people who were reportedly had been sent by the ZANU PF Provincial Youth Chairperson, Godfrey Gomwe.
Read More →Former Salvation Army leader General André Cox was born in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe). Cox was appointed as a Salvation Army leader on 25 May 1979.
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