Biography day in josiah magama tongogara

          Herbert chitepo

        1. Herbert chitepo
        2. Born in in the then Selukwe (now Shurugwi), Tongogara grew up in a Rhodesia suffused with racial inequality and colonial oppression.
        3. Tongogara refugee camp
        4. Josiah Magama Tongogara was born in Selukwe (Shurugwi) in He obtained his primary education, up to Standard VI, at an Anglican mission school.
        5. Secretary for Defence and Commander of the ZANLA Forces, General Tongogara started his revolutionary activities in ZANU in Lusaka, Zambia, in.

          6. Tongogara refugee camp!

          Josiah Tongogara

          Zimbabwean politician

          Josiah Tongogara

          Josiah Tongogara

          In office
          1973–1979
          Preceded byHerbert Chitepo
          Born

          Josiah Tongogara


          (1938-02-04)4 February 1938
          Died26 December 1979(1979-12-26) (aged 41)
          NationalityZimbabwean
          Political partyZANU
          RelationsJayne Matarise

          Josiah Magama Tongogara (4 February 1938 – 26 December 1979) was a prominent Zimbabwean guerrilla commander during the Rhodesian Bush War.[1] He was the brother of the current Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first wife, Jayne.[2] He attended the Lancaster House conference that led to Zimbabwe's independence and the end of white minority rule.

          Early life

          Tongogara and his parents lived on the farm owned by the parents of Ian Smith, Rhodesia's last prime minister.[3][4] It was where Tongogara first met Ian Smith.[5]

          In politics

          Tongogara was one of several rebel commanders oper