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Jun 19, 1917 Semokwe, Matabeleland South Province, Zimbabwe Died on 01 Jul 1999 (aged 82)
Zimbabwean politician
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About Joshua Nkomo
- Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe from 1987 to 1999.
- He was leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) party. He was a trades-union leader, who became president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government.
- After his release, ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, but then feuded with the rival ZANU group led by Robert Mugabe.
- Fearing for his life, Nkomo fled the country, before controversially allowing ZAPU to merge with ZANU. Nkomo had many nicknames, including "Umafukufuku", "Father Zimbabwe", and "Chibwechitedza" (the slippery rock).
- He was respectfully and affectionately known as "uMdala or uMdala wethu", our elder.
