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Joshua Nkomo (Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo) was born on 19 June, 1917 in Matopos, Southern Rhodesia (now Matobo, Zimbabwe), is a Zimbabwean politician. Discover Joshua Nkomo's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo
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Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 19 June, 1917
Birthday 19 June
Birthplace Matopos, Southern Rhodesia (now Matobo, Zimbabwe)
Date of death 1 July, 1999
Died Place Harare, Zimbabwe
Nationality Zimbabwe

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His wife is Johanna Fuyana (m. 1949)

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1917

Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from 1990 until his death in 1999.

Nkomo was born on 19 June 1917 in Matopos, Matabeleland, Southern Rhodesia (now Matobo, Zimbabwe) to a poor Ndebele family.

He was one of eight children.

His father (Thomas Nyongolo Letswansto Nkomo) worked as a preacher and a cattle rancher and worked for the London Missionary Society.

His mother was Mlingo Hadebe.

After completing his primary education in Southern Rhodesia, Nkomo took a carpentry course at the Tsholotsho Government Industrial School and studied there for a year before becoming a driver.

He later tried animal husbandry, then became a schoolteacher specialising in carpentry at Manyame School in Kezi.

1942

In 1942, at the age of 25, during his career as a teacher, he decided that he should go to South Africa to further his education, do carpentry and qualify to a higher level.

He attended Adams College and the Jan H. Hofmeyr School of Social Work in South Africa, where he met Nelson Mandela and other future nationalist leaders at the University of Fort Hare, although he did not attend that university.

1947

After returning to Bulawayo in 1947, he became a trade unionist for black railway workers and rose to the leadership of the Railway Workers Union and then to leadership of the Southern Rhodesian chapter of the African National Congress.

1949

Nkomo married his wife Johanna Fuyana on 1 October 1949.

1952

It was at the Jan Hofmeyr School of Social Work that he was awarded a diploma in social work in 1952.

1953

In 1953 he ran for Parliament in the first federal election, although he lost.

1957

The Southern Rhodesian ANC branch became the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress (SRANC), and in 1957 Nkomo was elected chairman.

1959

Nkomo was out of the country in 1959 when SRANC was banned, its property confiscated, and many of its leaders arrested.

1960

On 1 January 1960, the National Democratic Party (NDP) was founded by Nkomo and others from the SRANC leadership to succeed the banned SRANC, and adopted their goals and organizational structure, as well as subsuming their membership.

That year he became president of the NDP with the support of Robert Mugabe.

1961

He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from 1961 until it merged in 1987 with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF after an internal military crackdown called Gukurahundi in western Zimbabwe, mostly on ethnic Ndebele ZAPU supporters.

He was a leading trade union leader, who progressed on to become president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government.

The NDP was banned in December 1961 by the Rhodesian government.

Nkomo immediately formed the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (ZAPU) together with Samuel Parirenyatwa, Ndabaningi Sithole, Robert Mugabe, and others.

1962

That party was also banned by the Rhodesian white minority government nine months later in September 1962.

1963

ZAPU split in 1963 with Sithole and Mugabe taking their supporters and forming the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU).

While some have claimed this split was due to ethnic tensions, more accurately the split was motivated by the failure of Sithole, Mugabe, Takawira and Malianga to wrest control of ZAPU from Nkomo.

ZAPU would remain a multi-ethnic party right up until independence.

1964

Nkomo was detained at Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp by Ian Smith's government in 1964, with fellow outlaw rebels Ndabaningi Sithole, Edgar Tekere, Enos Nkala, Maurice Nyagumbo, and Mugabe, until 1974.

Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo a student youth leader was also detained with them for some time.

A large number of them were released due to pressure from South African Prime Minister John Vorster.

Following Nkomo's release, he went to Zambia to continue opposing the Rhodesian government through the dual processes of armed resistance and negotiation.

Unlike ZANU's armed wing – the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, ZAPU's armed wing – the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army – was dedicated to both guerrilla warfare and conventional warfare.

At the time of independence ZIPRA had a modern military, stationed in Zambia and Angola, consisting of Soviet-made Mikoyan fighters, tanks and armoured personnel carriers, as well as well trained artillery units.

Nkomo was the target of two attempted assassinations.

The first one, in Zambia, by the Selous Scouts, was a false flag operation.

The mission was ultimately aborted and attempted later, unsuccessfully, by the Rhodesian Special Air Service (SAS).

1974

After his release in 1974, ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, along with the splinter rival ZANU, created in 1963.

1983

In 1983, fearing for his life in the early stages of the Gukurahundi, Nkomo fled the country.

1987

Later in 1987, he controversially signed the Unity Accord allowing ZAPU to merge with ZANU to stop the genocide.

Nkomo earned many nicknames like "Umafukufuku" in Ndebele, "Father Zimbabwe" in English, and "Chibwechitedza" ("the slippery rock") in Shona.

2011

In August 2011 it was reported by the BBC that Nkomo had been tipped off by the British government.

ZAPU forces strategically weakened the Rhodesian government during the Bush War.