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  Josiah Tongogara - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Josiah Tongogara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Josiah Tongogara is a fallen hero of the Zimbabwe revolutionary war, and streets are named after him in almost every town in the country.
Tongogara and his parents lived on the farm owned by the parents of Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last prime minister.
Tongogara is a symbol for both sides in Zimbabwe's struggle.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Josiah-Tongogara.html   (558 words)

  
 Josiah Tongogara   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Josiah Tongogara is a fallen hero of the Zimbabwe revolutionary war, and streets are named after him inalmost every town in the country.
Tongogara and his parents lived on the farm owned by the parents of Ian Smith, Rhodesia 's last prime minister.
By then, Tongogara was openly favouring unity between ZANU and Zimbabwe's othernationalist movement, Joshua Nkomo 's ZAPU.
www.therfcc.org /josiah-tongogara-163079.html   (482 words)

  
 Josiah Royce - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Josiah Royce   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Josiah Royce - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Josiah Royce.
Josiah Royce (1855-11-20 - 1916-09-14) was an American objective idealist philosopher.
Royce was born in Grass Valley, California, studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins University under Charles Peirce, and taught it at Harvard.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Josiah-Royce.html   (303 words)

  
 New Statesman - This man has been called Zimbabwe's Che Guevara. Did Mugabe have him murdered?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tongogara, he says, was "a very strong charismatic leader" and "the epitome of a freedom fighter, with all the recruits aspiring to be like him.
She was a 21-year-old Zanu secretary when Tongogara died, and it was only years later that she announced - not entirely convincingly - that she'd been in the car with him when it had crashed into the back of a truck.
But while the facts of Tongogara's death remain obscure, its meaning in present-day Zimbabwe is clear, with both the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and ruling Zanu-PF claiming his legacy, and legitimacy, for themselves.
www.newstatesman.com /200404120020   (1503 words)

  
 Josiah Strong - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Josiah Strong   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Josiah Strong - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Josiah Strong.
Josiah Strong (1847-1916) was a Protestant clergyman and author.
The large increase in immigration during this period led him to conclude that the perils he outlined in the first edition had only grown.
www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Josiah-Strong.html   (222 words)

  
 Did Mugabe kill Tongogara?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But while the facts of Tongogara's death remain obscure, its meaning in present-day Zimbabwe is clear, with both the opposition Movement for Democratic Change and ruling Zanu PF claiming his legacy, and legitimacy, for themselves.
As in Macbeth, the popular (in Tongogara's case, future) king had been supplanted by his killer, who became steeped in greater bloodshed as he rose to power, and was now haunted by the ghost of his deeds.
Footage of Zimbabwe's great heroes, Mugabe and Tongogara, is intercut with joyful people dancing on their newly acquired land and pictures of the country's enemies, Tony Blair and the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai.
www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/tongo.11650.html   (1523 words)

  
 Josiah Tongogara -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tongogara and his parents lived on the farm owned by the parents of (Rhodesian statesman who declared independence of Zimbabwe from Great Britain (born in 1919)) Ian Smith, (A landlocked republic in south central Africa formerly called Rhodesia; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1980) Rhodesia's last prime minister.
At the (Click link for more info and facts about Lancaster House Agreement) Lancaster House Agreement, Tongogara was a crucial "moderating" force, according to (Click link for more info and facts about Lord Carrington) Lord Carrington, the then British foreign secretary, who chaired the talks.
By then, Tongogara was openly favouring unity between (Click link for more info and facts about ZANU) ZANU and Zimbabwe's other nationalist movement, (Click link for more info and facts about Joshua Nkomo) Joshua Nkomo's (Click link for more info and facts about ZAPU) ZAPU.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/josiah_tongogara.htm   (618 words)

  
 Infoline   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Joshua Tongogara, a younger brother of the Zimbabwe liberation war hero, Josiah Magama Tongogara, is one of three opposition MDC candidates in Shurugwi held hostage at their homes on Monday by suspected ruling Zanu PF party militants.
Joshua Tongogara was the MDC candidate for Ward 4.
Joshua Tongogara, the youngest brother of the late Zanla commander Josiah Tongogara, defected from Zanu PF to the MDC nearly two years ago after the family said they felt neglected by the ruling party.
www.samara.co.zw /infoline/sep02/13_sep.htm   (2683 words)

  
 Institute for War and Peace Reporting   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was murdered by [Josiah] Tongogara and the Karanga mafia,” he said.
Tongogara was the commander of ZANU’s guerrilla forces in exile at a time of dangerously high ethnic tensions within the movement, between Chitepo’s Manyika clan of the larger tribal Shona grouping, and Tongogara’s Karanga clan.
The remains of the dead Chitepo and Tongogara today lie close to each other in Heroes Acre, the full stories of their mysterious deaths untold.
www.iwpr.net /index.pl?archive/ar/ar_ze_016_2_eng.txt   (1212 words)

  
 Gukurahundi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mugabe replied by saying dissidents should "watch out", and further announced the brigade would be called "Gukurahundi".
The members of the Fifth Brigade were drawn from 3500 ex-ZANLA troops at Tongogara Assembly Point, named after Josiah Tongogara, the general of Zanla, the militant wing of Mugabe's ZANU during the revolutionary war.
There were a few ZIPRA (ZAPU) troops in the unit for a start, but they were withdrawn before the end of the training.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gukurahundi   (531 words)

  
 ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe
On the same night, Tongogara sent Robson Manyika to Chitepo's house to go and check whether Chimurenga, Rudo and Short had carried out the mission.
The report says members of the High Command who gave evidence admitted that on hearing rumours some of them were to be arrested, scattered and ran away from Zambia instead of being eager to assist Zambian Police.
The commission was chaired by Reuben Chitandika Kamanga and Mathias Mainza Chona, both Zambians, representatives of African countries from Botswana, Congo, Ivory Coast, Libya, Malagasy, Morocco, Mozambique, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania and Zaire.
www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=2709   (949 words)

  
 Mugabe eats supper with spirit of his rival [Free Republic]
For the president believes himself to be haunted by the ghost of a man many believe to have been a victim of his rise to power: Josiah Tongogara, the charismatic guerrilla leader of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla).
Tongogara was widely expected to become president in 1980, with Mugabe as prime minister, but no sooner had Zanu won the independence election than Tongogara was killed in a car crash.
An extra place is set at dinner for Tongogara and food is served for him.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3b75da1979ea.htm   (1567 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Robert Mugabe
On 18 March 1975, Chitepo was killed by a bomb placed in his car while in Zambia.
ZANLA commander Josiah Tongogara was subsequently blamed by Kenneth Kaunda's government.
Josiah Tongogara – Zanla military general for Mugabe's ZANU political wing
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Mugabe   (8565 words)

  
 Paranoid President Mugabe On Antidepressants - Haunted By Ghost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Robert Mugabe - Zimbabwe's embattled president, believes he is haunted by the ghost of a former rival who berates him for mismanaging the country, aides have said.
For six months, Mugabe has been "seeing" Josiah Tongogara, a former guerrilla leader who was expected to become president in 1980, but died in a car crash.
Staff at the presidential palace say that in an effort to placate Tongogara, Mugabe sets an extra place at dinner each night and orders food to be served for him.
www.rense.com /general12/hjs.htm   (369 words)

  
 The Sunday Mail - Zimbabwe News Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The former airforce commander, who died of a kidney ailment at the Garden City Clinic in Johannesburg, was declared a national hero and will be buried at the National Heroes Acre today.
"We worked together with the late Josiah Tongogara, the late Cde Tungamirai, retired General Zvinavashe and myself and the loss of Cde Tungamirai is a great loss to the people of Masvingo and the whole nation.
He was recalled in 1979 to join the Zanu delegation to the Lancaster House talks in the capacity of special military advisor to the Zanla chief of defence, the late Cde Josiah Tongogara.
www.zimbabwemail.com /index.php?id=12393&pubdate=2005-08-28   (1668 words)

  
 OJPCR 1.4 -- Lord Carrington's Mediation
Josiah Tongogara attacked isolated white farmers in northeastern Rhodesia.
Tongogara, commander of ZANLA, ZANU's military forces, had received Maoist tactical training in China (ZANLA adopted the Maoist principle 'Guerrillas swimming like fish in the water of the people').
Tongogara's attitude can be explained through his belief that Mozambique was serious in its threat (of ending support) and "if there are elections, free and fair, we are sure to win them; no one else has comparable machinery to what we have."
www.trinstitute.org /ojpcr/1_4bayer.htm   (8137 words)

  
 GWS - About
All indications are that the SA missions will not make a judgment based on anything they may witness on the ground, writes Elinor Sisulu
We demand a free and fair election where international observers will oversee." Josiah Magama Tongogara (1978), Zimbabwe national liberation hero and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army military chief, who died in a car accident on the eve of Zimbabwe's independence.
If awards were given out for successfully rigged elections, Zimbabwe would rank among the leading nations in the world.
web.uct.ac.za /org/gwsafrica/news/elinor-elections2.html   (668 words)

  
 chitepo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was murdered by Tongogara and the Karanga Mafia.
Chief plotter, the OAU said, was Josiah Tongogara.
With the departure of Tongogara on the eve of Independence, his ascension to total leadership of Zimbabwe was assured.
thezimbabwean.co.uk /25-march-2005/chitepo.html   (1261 words)

  
 MTHWAKAZI ACTION GROUP ON GENOCIDE AND ETHNIC CLEANSING IN MATEBELELAND AND MIDLANDS 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In fact the inquiry established that it was Josiah Tongogara (then army commander of ZANLA) who instructed his deputy, Rex Nhongo (now General Solomon Mujuru the former army commander of the Zimbabwe National Army) to place a bomb in Herbert Chitepo's car which killed him.
Four years later in 1979, Josiah Tongogara (ZANLA commander) returning from the Lancaster House settlement (in the UK) was himself killed in a mysterious car accident in Mozambique.
It was at these talks that Robert Gabriel Mugabe's ZANU-PF was guaranteed victory with 57 seats at the independence elections in 1980, on condition that they undertook not to provide bases to the ANC's MK who were waging a vicious liberation war against the apartheid regime in South Africa.
members.aol.com /maggemm/Historical.htm   (6008 words)

  
 [Ip-health] A LETTER
Dear Sir You will be surprise to receive this letter since you don't know me personally, but i will like you to treat this request as a call from somebody in dire need of your kind assistance,but for the purpose of introduction.
I am Josiah Tongogara the eldest son of Tongogara, who was murdered with other whites in the land dispute violence in Zimbabwe a few years ago year.
Before his death, he had taken me to South Africa to deposit the sum of US$25.MILLION(TWENTY FIVE MILLION UNITED STATES DOLLARS)with a security and finace company.
lists.essential.org /pipermail/ip-health/2004-February/005883.html   (335 words)

  
 Summary
On passing through State House they were ordered to identify from amongst themselves a person who had whistled from the passengers in the minibus.
The army officer was at the corner of Josiah Tongogara/8th Street.
· Samuel Mvurume, Zanu-PF Tongogara District Chairman, was threatened with death by MDC youths in the area if he continued to hold rallies.
www.hrforumzim.com /monthly/february02_02.htm   (6910 words)

  
 ROAPE: Briefing - Some Questions about Chitepo Report & Zimbabwe Movement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The second finding was that this and other killings were a product of internal feuding that was 'tribal' in origin.
Josiah Tongogara and Chitepo's bodyguard had been charged with the murder.
All the above is questioned methodically and disentangled and situated within the realm of 'disinformation'.
www.roape.org /cgi-bin/roape/show/0612.html   (119 words)

  
 Focus 20 - Interview with a Zimbabwean war veteran   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He was quite adamant about this and said we must find somebody else.
But we weren't very keen on Tongogara and in the end Machel accepted him as leader.
Indeed Samora Machel said to him in 1976, "If you want to fight the British, why do you always choose to go through London when you travel?" Machel was very suspicious of him.
www.hsf.org.za /focus20/focus20interview.html   (3123 words)

  
 Sokwanele - Heroes?
After Independence, when a Heroes Acre was proposed, we did not object to gathering our heroes together in one place where we could honour and remember them as a group, the makers of our freedom, an inspiration to the younger generation to carry on the struggle to achieve justice in a new Zimbabwe.
We brought there those who had died before the day of liberation, some of the truly greats of our history - Herbert Chitepo, Jason Moyo, Alfred Mangena, Josiah Tongogara, Leopold Takawira.
And as their colleagues in the struggle died through the 80's and 90's we took them to join their comrades at Warren Hills: Masotsha Ndlovu, T.G. Silundika, Maurice Nyagumbo, Willie Musarurwa, Sydney Malunga, George Nyandoro, Edward Ndlovu, Joshua Nkomo, Simon Muzenda and most recently Eddison Zvobgo.
www.sokwanele.com /articles/sokwanele/heroes_21nov2004.html   (1480 words)

  
 New Statesman: This man has been called Zimbabwe's Che Guevara. Did Mugabe have him murdered? In a divided land, Josiah ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
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One woman professes to know the truth: Oppah Muchinguri, a former cabinet minister in Mugabe's government, whose close relationship with him--and fractious relationship with his wife Grace--has long been the subject of local rumour.
She was a 21-year-old Zanu secretary when Tongogara died, and it was only years later that she announced--not entirely convincingly--that she'd been in the car with him when it had crashed into the back of a truck.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4683_133/ai_n6152697   (1397 words)

  
 CPJ News Alert: Zimbabwe 2001
The story, titled "Paranoid Mugabe Dines With Ghost," reports that President Robert Mugabe feels haunted by the ghost of a leader in the independence movement who died in a suspicious car accident more than 20 years ago.
According to the article, many Zimbabweans believe that Mugabe was linked to the death of Josiah Tongogara, a charismatic guerrilla leader who was widely expected to become president in 1980.
Police told Chavunduka, who was accompanied to the station by Standard lawyer Innocent Chagonda, that he faced criminal defamation charges and would be summoned to court if the attorney general decided to prosecute.
www.cpj.org /news/2001/Zim23aug01na.html   (660 words)

  
 The Zimbabwe Independent   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Tavarwisa was the only woman ever to sit on the Zanu Dare Rechimurenga (War Council).
Hamadziripi took the credit of recruiting the late guerilla war General Josiah Magama Tongogara, Vice-President Simon Muzenda, and the country’s post-Independence Zimbabwe Defence Forces supremo Vitalis Zvinavashe into the liberation war.
For Mapiye Hwekete, burying Hamadziripi away from his comrades-in-arms entombed at Heroes’ Acre most probably evoked sad memories of his graveside eulogy at Tavarwisa’s burial some years ago when he asked the late Vice-President Muzenda: “What unforgivable crime did she commit not to be buried at Heroes’ Acre?
www.theindependent.co.zw /news/2005/September/Friday30/3281.html   (918 words)

  
 Movement for Democratic Change Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The tribal composition replicated itself in the armed wing of ZANU with the
Karangas, led by Josiah Tongogara, forming the backbone of the liberation
Josiah Tongogara, the military commander of ZANU in
www.mdczimbabwe.org /Archives/2005/march/tribalrivalrysplitzanu.htm   (1606 words)

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