Ryan Cairns a professional golf player was born on this day in 1984. Cairns is part of the Sunshine Tour
Read More →Vitalis Chikoko, a professional basketball player was born in Harare on this day in 1991. Vitalis currently plays for Levallois in France.
Read More →Farai Mudariki, a Zimbabwean rugby union player was born on this day in 1995.
Read More →Zimbabwe’s longtime opposition party leader and former Prime Minister Richard Morgan Tsvangirai died on this day in 2018. Tsvangirai succumbed to colon cancer in Johannesburg. Tsvangirai was the president of the MDC-T party at the time of his death, which he co-founded as Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999.
Read More →Hilton Cartwright, a Zimbabwean born Australian cricketer was born on this day in 1992. Cartwright was born in Harare and spent most of his childhood in Marondera where his parents owned a farm. He moved to Australia in 2003 after their farm became subject to Zimbabwean government land reform programme.
Read More →Adelaide Tambo nee Tshukudu died on this day in 2007. She was 77 when she passed on. Adelaide is considered an ANC, South African and African heroine as she was a prominent anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. She was buried in her home town of Wattvile next to her husband Oliver Tambo.
Read More →On this day in 1961, Zimbabwean businessman and philanthropist Strive Masiyiwa was born. Masiyiwa is best known as the founder and chairman of Econet Wireless International and Zimbabwe’s first billionaire. In 1968, together with his family fled to north-central Zambia Town of Kitwe due to regional government instability in the country (Zimbabwe). In 1978, after […]
Read More →Winifred Mabel Brunton née Newberry, a South African painter and illustrator died on this day. She was popularly known for her Egyptian kings paintings. She lived in Johannesburg.
Read More →Nicholas Raymond Leige Price, a professional Zimbabwean professional was born on this day. Nick’s mother is English and his mother Welsh. He was born in Durban, South Africa but he spent his early life in Zimbabwe (then Rhodesia), where he attended Prince Edward school in Harare.
Read More →Sekuru Kaguvi surrenders himself to the Rhodesians after a mysterious hiding that lasted for almost a year. After surrendering himself he was executed in the following year along with Mbuya Nehanda.
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