Harare's Financial Gazette recounted last month how Joshua Nkomo's family had invited Ncube to officiate at the late Vice-President's memorial mass in 2000...
He also participated in Mugabe's political manoeuvres to neutralise and ultimately cajole Joshua Nkomo and his Zimbabwe African Patriotic Union into a political merger to form ZANU-PF in 1987 spelling the death of ZAPU...
He is heir to his first cousin Joshua Nkomo; when the veteran Ndebele leader died in 1999 John inherited the leadership of what remained of ZAPU...
The 15 per cent Ndebele minority formerly loyal to Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU turned to the MDC after ZAPU was swallowed by Mugabe's ZANU still unforgiven for the Matebele massacres...
Tribunes and proconsuls Masiyiwa was close to Mugabe's late rival Vice-President Joshua Nkomo who granted him a mobile phone licence; the decision was countermanded by Joyce Mujuru a junior minister married to the former army chief retired General Solomon Mujuru (aka Rex Nhongho) who fancies himself a kingmaker (though Econet eventually won its licence)...
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- SOUTH AFRICA
The MDC thinks the ANC too friendly to ZANU and recalls that Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union formed a 'unity accord' with ZANU and was swallowed up...
The new Environment Minister Francis Nhema is the late Joshua Nkomo's son-in-law...
Former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa who lost his seat in Matebeleland said the election result spells the end of the 1987 Unity pact agreed between ZANU-PF and the late Joshua Nkomo 's Zimbabwe African People 's Union (which dominated Matebeleland immediately after Independence)...
During the clampdown on its one-time rival the late Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union in 1982-83 North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade troops killed more than 2 000 civilians in the ZAPU stronghold of Matebeleland...
Mnangagwa's problem is that he and Shiri were closely linked in the Matebeleland affair: Mnangagwa ran the Central Intelligence Organisation's operations against Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union while Shiri and Five ran the military side...
Joseph Msika (77) moved up from National Chairman to Co-Vice-President replacing the late Joshua Nkomo...
Based in Matebeleland and led by people under 35 ZAPU 2000 is gaining support among disillusioned former members of ZAPU the party once led by the late Joshua Nkomo (AC Vol 40 No 14)...
