On this day in 1975, Herbert Wiltshire Pfumaindini Chitepo and one of his bodyguard Silas Shamiso died when a bomb placed on his car exploded in Lusaka, Zambia. His other bodyguard Sadat Kufamadzuba survived with injuries.
On this day in 2016, ZANU-PF central committee member Cde Victoria Chitepo was found dead by her granddaughter at her home in Mount Pleasant, Harare. Victoria Chitepo was the wife of the late Advocate Herbert Chitepo. She died at the age of 87.