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    Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from...
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    The statue of Joshua Nkomo is a monument to the Zimbabwean vice president Joshua Nkomo in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe's second largest city. The bronze statue was...
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    Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo International Airport (IATA: BUQ, ICAO: FVJN) is an airport located 25 kilometres (16 mi) outside Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. Originally known...
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  • Nkomo may refer to: John Nkomo (1934–2013), 3rd Second Vice-President of Zimbabwe (2009–2013) Joshua Nkomo (1917–1999), 1st Second Vice-President of Zimbabwe...
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    mobilizing the rural peasantry. It was relaunched in 2008 by Joshua Nkomo's son, Michael Nkomo. In 1980, ZAPU contested elections in Zimbabwe as the Patriotic...
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    Mount Pleasant Harare , Harare Province Zimbabwe Information Other name Joshua Nkomo High School School type Secondary school Motto "A man of understanding...
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    African National Union; and the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union. The war and its subsequent Internal...
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  • Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) was a primarily-Ndebele anti-government force, led by Joshua Nkomo and ZAPU. ZIPRA trained and planned their missions in Zambian bases;...
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    had gone to look for water before the guerrillas arrived. ZIPRA leader Joshua Nkomo publicly claimed responsibility for shooting down the Hunyani in an interview...
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    during the 1960s by the nationalist leader Jason Moyo, the deputy of Joshua Nkomo. Because ZAPU's political strategy combined political negotiations and...
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    Ndabaningi Sithole and the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) of Joshua Nkomo—both placed themselves under the UANC umbrella even though they had some...
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  • active from 1 January 1960 to 9 December 1961. The party was founded by Joshua Nkomo with the objective of achieving greater rights for the African majority...
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  • negotiations. The Patriotic Front delegation was led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. ZAPU leaders Josiah Mushore Chinamano and Joseph Msika, ZANLA general...
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    favour of those of black nationalist leaders, prominently Robert Mugabe, Joshua Nkomo and Jason Moyo. The name of the country has changed several times since...
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    independence leader Robert Mugabe, defeated the popular Ndebele candidate Joshua Nkomo, solidified their rule over independent Zimbabwe. The former state of...
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  • Bulawayo, where she eventually met nationalist and late vice president Joshua Nkomo in 1949. They got married within the same year. Their first child died...
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    reconciliation failed to stem growing white emigration, while relations with Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) also deteriorated. In the Gukurahundi...
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    Muchachi. While there, he criticised the decisions of ZAPU's leader, Joshua Nkomo, an offence for which a ZIPRA tribunal chaired by Dumiso Dabengwa sentenced...
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  • political figures who later became prominent, including Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, were members of the SRANC. By the 1950s, the native peoples of Southern...
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  • the Capernaum Scholarship for orphaned and vulnerable children and the Joshua Nkomo Scholarship for highly gifted children. Other than Education support...
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  • on 18 April. On 17 February 1982 the government of Zimbabwe accused Joshua Nkomo, leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), of...
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  • Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Polytechnic is a state higher education institution in Gwanda, Zimbabwe, offering Diploma in Education. The Government of Zimbabwe...
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    organisation adopted the CYL's principle of "one man, one vote" and elected Joshua Nkomo as its president. The SRANC, which demanded African majority rule, gained...
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  • In March 1983, 5th Brigade troops ransacked the home of ZAPU chairman Joshua Nkomo, shooting three of his domestic staff during the raid. The 5th Brigade's...
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    activism against white rule in Rhodesia, along with Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo. He was freed in 1971, and he spent a period in exile in Canada. He then...
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  • parties, Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) and Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU), had emerged to challenge Rhodesia's...
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  • also became Vice President of Zimbabwe in December 2009. Nkomo was a member of Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) before the party merged...
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    forces carried out a raid on Joshua Nkomo's residence in Lusaka (Zambia) with the stated intention of assassinating him. Nkomo and his family left hastily...
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  • went into exile in Zambia, and later in Mozambique. Failing to draw Joshua Nkomo and his ZAPU movement into a unified political front, he backed Robert...
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  • public prosecutions. The Ndabaningi Sithole and Joshua Nkomo factions of ZAPU split apart in July 1963. Nkomo's supporters founded the PCC-ZAPU (later just...
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