Writers

• Alexander McCall Smith
  Alexander McCall Smith
  Alexander "Sandy" McCall Smith, CBE, FRSE, is a Rhodesian-born Scottish writer and Emeritus Professor of Medical Law at the University of Edinburgh. In the late 20th century, McCall Smith became a respected expert on medical law and bioethics and served on British and international committees...
  
   (born 1948) - Creator of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
  The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a series of twelve novels by Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. The agency is located in Gaborone, capital of Botswana. Its founder is a Motswana woman, Mma Precious Ramotswe, who features as the stories' protagonist and main detective...
  
  
• Angus Shaw (writer)
  Angus Shaw (writer)
  Angus Shaw is an Zimbabwean journalist, and novelist.-Life:He was orphaned in 1958, and sent to England for school.He joined the Rhodesia Herald in 1972....
  
   (born 1949)
• Brian Chikwava
  Brian Chikwava
  Brian Chikwava is an African writer. His short story Seventh Street Alchemy was awarded the 2004 Caine Prize for African Writing and Chikwava became the first Zimbabwean to do so. He has been a Charles Pick fellow at the University of East Anglia, and lives in London...
  
  
• Catherine Buckle
  Catherine Buckle
  Catherine Buckle or Cathy Buckle is a Zimbabwean writer and blogger living in Marondera, Zimbabwe. She and her former husband bought "Stow Farm" in Marondera in 1990 and managed to make the farm productive and viable...
  
  
• Charles Mungoshi
  Charles Mungoshi
  Charles Lovemore Mungoshi is a writer from Zimbabwe.Mungoshi's works include short stories and novels in both Shona and English. He also writes poetry, but views it as a "mere finger exercise." He has a wide range, including anti-colonial writings and children's books...
  
   (born 1947)
• Chenjerai Hove
  Chenjerai Hove
  Chenjerai Hove , is a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist. He was educated at the University of South Africa and the University of Zimbabwe, and has worked as an educator and journalist...
  
   (born 1956)
• Cont Mhlanga
  Cont Mhlanga
  Cont Mdladla Mhlanga is a Zimbabwean playwright, actor and theatre director. He is also the founder and head of the Amakhosi Theatre Productions company, formed in 1982....
  
  
• Dambudzo Marechera
  Dambudzo Marechera
  Dambudzo Marechera was a Zimbabwean novelist and poet.-Early life:...
  
   (1952–1987) - writer
• J. Nozipo Maraire (born 1966)
• Jacob Chikuhwa
  Jacob Chikuhwa
  Dr. Jacob Wilson Chikuhwa is an author and leading political and cultural historian of Zimbabwe. Now retired and living in Sweden he is the author of six books on Zimbabwe, and is a lecturer and painter.-Early years:...
  
   (born 1940)
• John Eppel
  John Eppel
  John Eppel was born in Lydenburg, South Africa. He moved to Colleen Bawn, a small mining town in the south of Southern Rhodesia , at the age of four. He was educated at Milton High School in Bulawayo, and later attended the University of Natal in South Africa. He married at the age of 34 and has...
  
   (born 1947) - Won the Ingrid Jonker prize for his first poetry book, and the M-Net Prize in 1994
• Onesimo Makani Kabweza
  Onesimo Makani Kabweza
  Onesimo Makani Kabweza, was the late editor of Moto Magazine in Zimbabwe. He was one of the firstZimbabwean journalists to break the “culture of silence” which followed the country’s independence in 1980....
  
   (1939–1993)
• Peter Godwin (born 1957)
• Tsitsi Dangarembga
  Tsitsi Dangarembga
  Tsitsi Dangarembga is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.- Biography :Dangarembga was born in Mutoko, Zimbabwe , in 1959 but spent part of her childhood in England. She began her education there, but concluded her A-levels in a missionary school back home, in the town of Mutare...
  
   (born 1959)
• Wilbur Smith
  Wilbur Smith
  Wilbur Addison Smith is a best-selling novelist. His writings include 16th and 17th century tales about the founding of the southern territories of Africa and the subsequent adventures and international intrigues relevant to these settlements. His books often fall into one of three series...
  
   (born 1933)
• Wiseman Magwa
  Wiseman Magwa
  -Biography:Magwa is a lecturer at Gweru Teacher's College. He is one of very few Shona writers using oral performances and texts to educate communities on social issues including nationalism, promiscuity and AIDS...
  
   (born 1962)
• Yvonne Vera
  Yvonne Vera
  Yvonne Vera was an award-winning author from Zimbabwe. Her novels are known for their poetic prose, difficult subject-matter, and their strong women characters, and are firmly rooted in Zimbabwe's difficult past...
  
   (1964–2005)
• Robert Mukondiwa (born 1980)- co-author of Thembi's Story and Other Autobiographical Stories

Business people

• John Bredenkamp
  John Bredenkamp
  John Arnold Bredenkamp is a Zimbabwean businessman and former rugby player. He is the founder of the Casalee Group.-Early life:...
  
  , founder of the Casalee Group
• Phillip Chiyangwa, founder of the Affirmative Action Group and chair of Native Africa Investments Ltd.
• Strive Masiyiwa
  Strive Masiyiwa
  Strive Masiyiwa is a Zimbabwean businessman and cellphone pioneer, founding Econet Wireless.-Econet Wireless:Econet began its operations as a cell phone operator in 1998 in Zimbabwe, where the company is the largest telecommunications company and one of the only two listed telecoms companies...
  
  , founder of Zimbabwea's largest telecommunications firmEconet Wireless
  Econet Wireless
  Econet Wireless is Zimbabwe's principal mobile or cell phone company and was established by the Zimbabwean businessman, Strive Masiyiwa. It is now the nation's largest cell phone network having captured 73.3% of the market share...
  
   and Botswana's Mascom Wireless
• Mutumwa Mawere
  Mutumwa Mawere
  Mutumwa Dziva Mawere , is an African businessman with interests in mining, manufacturing and agro industries, financial services , telecommunications, publishing, investment holdings, transport and logistics, and international trading, among others...
  
  , multi-industrialist
• Trevor Ncube
  Trevor Ncube
  Trevor Vusumuzi Ncube is a Zimbabwean entrepreneur and newspaper publisher now living in South Africa.Ncube was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe...
  
  , newspaper owner

Musicians

• The Bhundu Boys
  Bhundu Boys
  The Bhundu Boys were a Zimbabwean band that played a mixture of chimurenga music with American rock and roll, disco, country, and pop influences...
  
  
• David Chifunyise
  David Chifunyise
  David Chifunyise, also known as D-va a nickname he was given as a teen, is a Zimbabwean urban grooves musician and song writer. David is one of the pioneers of the Urban Grooves genre of music in Zimbabwe. He released his debut song, Tauya Naye in 1999 on the collaboration album The Future,...
  
   - University of Zimbabwe
  University of Zimbabwe
  The University of Zimbabwe in Harare, is the oldest and largest university in Zimbabwe. It was founded through a special relationship with the University of London and it opened its doors to its first students in 1952. The university has ten faculties offering a wide variety of degree programmes...
  
   graduate who sang and composed the title song of the popular Studio 263 (country code for Zimbabwe), one of the pioneers of Zimbabwe's 'Urban Groove" genre a local blend of Rhythm & Blues and Hip Hop
• Simon Chimbetu
  Simon Chimbetu
  Simon Chopper Chimbetu was a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist and composer. He was the founding member his band Orchestra Dendera Kings.-Early life:...
  
   - Sungura legend and former Zimbabwe liberation war hero. (deceased)
• Stella Chiweshe
  Stella Chiweshe
  Stella Chiweshe is a Zimbabwean musician. She is internationally known for her singing and playing of the mbira dzavadzimu, a traditional instrument of the Shona people of Zimbabwe...
  
   - dubbed "Queen of Mbira
  Mbira
  In African music, the mbira is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. It is often fitted into a resonator...
  
  "
• John Edmond
  John Edmond
  John Edmond is a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was sometimes called the "Bush Cat". During his childhood, he and his parents moved between Scotland and Central Africa...
  
  
• Lucky Dube
  Lucky Dube
  Lucky Philip Dube was a South African reggae musician. He recorded 22 albums in Zulu, English and Afrikaans in a 25-year period and was South Africa's biggest selling reggae artist...
  
   World renowned South African artist famous for his contribution to the Reggae genre. His father was a Zimbabwean immigrant to South Africa.
• Thomas Mapfumo
  Thomas Mapfumo
  Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo is a Zimbabwean musician known as "The Lion of Zimbabwe" and "Mukanya" for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music, including his sharp criticism of the government of President Robert Mugabe...
  
   - well-known Zimbabwean musician for the Chimurenga
  Chimurenga
  Chimurenga is a Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'. The word's modern interpretation has been extended to describe a struggle for human rights, political dignity and social justice, specifically used for the African insurrections against British colonial rule 1896–1897 and the guerrilla war...
  
   genre, went into exile in the United Kingdom were he released albums criticizing the Zanu PF government.
• Dumisani Maraire
  Dumisani Maraire
  Abraham Dumisani Maraire , known to friends as "Dumi," was a master performer of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe. He specialized in the form of mbira called nyunga nyunga, as well as the Zimbabwean marimba...
  
   - Shona mbira
  Mbira
  In African music, the mbira is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. It is often fitted into a resonator...
  
   player who died in 1999.
• Clem Tholet
  Clem Tholet
  Clem Tholet was a Rhodesian folk singer who became popular in the 1970s for his Rhodesian patriotic songs. He reached the height of his fame during the Rhodesian Bush War....
  
  
• Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi - does popular and traditional music, plays with band "Black Spirits"

• Ephat Mujuru
  Ephat Mujuru
  Ephat Mujuru , a Zimbabwean musician, was one of the 20th century's finest players of the mbira, a traditional instrument of the Shona ethnic group of Zimbabwe.-Biography:...
  
   - first to popularise the mbira
  Mbira
  In African music, the mbira is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. It is often fitted into a resonator...
  
   in the West (America).}
• Jonathan Wutawunashe
  Jonathan Wutawunashe
  Jonathan Wutawunashe is a songwriter, guitarist, keyboard player and producer.His whose lead has inspired many artists in Zimbabwe, the Southern African region, and as far afield as the North Atlantic....
  
   - influential head of a gospel music
  Gospel music
  Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  
   group
• Zimbabwe tribesmen
  Zimbabwe tribesmen
  Zimbabwe Tribesmen are a Death metal band with Instrumental, Thrash and Funk influences, formed in Zimbabwe in 2006.-Biography:The band was started by Abidemi Ambo as a project with his best friends, Kgosi Naisoh and Jengo Afriakaani...
  
   - Zimbabwean metal band
• Leonard Zhakata
  Leonard Zhakata
  Leonard Karikoga Zhakata is a Zimbabwean musician and singer. He writes and performs songs mainly in his native Shona tongue....
  
   - sang the chart buster "Mugove"
• Lovemore Majaivana
  Lovemore Majaivana
  Lovemore "Majaivana" Tshuma , commonly known as Lovemore Majaivana is a Zimbabwean musician, arguably the most popular Ndebele singer, and by far the most prominent to have come out of Bulawayo...
  
  - Ndebele singer, song writer
• Jonah Sithole
  Jonah Sithole
  Jonah Sithole was a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist and composer, known particularly for the mbira-inspired style known as mbira-guitar or chimurenga music.-Early life:...
  
  -Winner of the first Reality Show (The A Academy) similar to America's Idols
• Tongai Moyo
  Tongai Moyo
  Tongai Moyo was a contemporary Zimbabwean musician, often referred to as Dhewa. Born and raised in Kwekwe, Dhewa rose to fame in the late 1990s as a solo-artist with the Utakataka express...
  
   - Famous Sungura artsist well known for his song "Samanyemba". He is also popularly known as "Murozvi Mukuru" or "Dhewa" or "Samanyemba" was diagnosed with cancer and continues to fight the disease and perform for his fans at the same time.
• Alick Macheso
  Alick Macheso
  Alick Macheso is a contemporary musician, often referred to as the king of sungura. Born and raised in Shamva, Alick rose to fame in the late 1990s as a solo artist with Orchestra Mberikwazvo. He is well known throughout all of Africa as one of the most successful African singers and ranked among...
  
   - Another famous Sungura artist. He used to play bass guitar for "Madzibaba" Nicholas Zacharia when they were still going under the name of "Khiama Boys". He later broke out to form his own band which goes by the name of Orchestra Mberikwazvo and thye have since recorded a lot of hits including the popular Zvakanaka Zvakadaro, Madhuve, Amai VaRubhi
• Sam Mtukudzi
  Sam Mtukudzi
  Sam Mtukudzi was a Zimbabwean musician. He was the son of singer Oliver Mtukudzi.-Early life and career:...
  
  , as well as being a recorded artist in his own right with the release of his solo album and has toured around Europe and South Africa. He was killed in a car accident on 15 March 2010 together with his sound engineer.
• Carol Mujokoro
  Carol Mujokoro
  Carol Mujokoro; born Carol Chivengwa; is a Zimbabwean 'Christian' gospel Artist.-Discography:Carol's recorded albums are:* 1994: Mufudzi Wangu* 1995: Ndinokudai Jesu* 1997: Vimba NaJehovah* 1999: Kutenda* 1996: Ropa RaJesu* 1999: NdiMwari Baba...
  
  - Popular gospel musician and recipient of TSAMA 2000 Best Female Artist.

Politicians

• Canaan Banana
  Canaan Banana
  Canaan Sodindo Banana served as the first President of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 until 31 December 1987. A Methodist minister, he held the largely ceremonial office of the presidency while his eventual successor, Robert Mugabe, served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.During his lifetime, Banana...
  
   - First none executive president of the republic Zimbabwe (deceased)
• Aeneas Chigwedere
  Aeneas Chigwedere
  Aeneas Chigwedere is a Zimbabwean politician, historian, educationist, and traditional leader. He served as the Minister of Education, Sports, & Culture since August 2001, and was appointed as the Resident Minister and Governor of Mashonaland East Province in August 2008...
  
   - Education Minister who attempted to bring major reforms to the Zimbabwean education sector including the renaming of all schoos with colonial names and the one uniform policy. both were rejected.
• James Chikerema
  James Chikerema
  James Robert Dambaza Chikerema served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe. He changed his views on militant struggle in the late 1970s and supported the 'internal settlement', serving in the attempted power-sharing governments.-Early life:Chikerema was born at Kutama...
  
  
• Chen Chimutengwende
• Chenhanho Chimutengwende
  Chenhanho Chimutengwende
  Chenhamo "Chen" Chakezha Chimutengwende is the Minister of State for Public and Interactive Affairs for Zimbabwe. and a longstanding supporter of Robert Mugabe...
  
  
• Ruth Chinamano
  Ruth Chinamano
  Ruth Lottie Nomondo Chinamano was a ZANU-PF politician and wife of Josiah Mushore Chinamano....
  
  
• Joseph Chinotimba
  Joseph Chinotimba
  Joseph Chinotimba is a Zimbabwean political figure. He rose to prominence during the invasions of white owned commercial farms that started after the 2000 referendum in Zimbabwe. He is widely regarded as a militant ZANU-PF cadre with unquestionable allegiance to the old guard of the ruling party...
  
  
• Jeremiah Chirau
  Jeremiah Chirau
  Jeremiah Chirau was a notable figure among Rhodesia's chiefs, and during the UDI he became the only leader of the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation , a party largely comprising chiefs....
  
  
• Emmanuel Chiroto
  Emmanuel Chiroto
  Emmanuel Chiroto is the deputy mayor of Harare, Zimbabwe. He is also a member of the Harare City Council.In the March 2008 election, the Movement for Democratic Change won 45 of the 46 local council seats in Harare, and Chiroto, who is a member of the MDC, was elected as Mayor of Harare by the...
  
  
• Herbert Chitepo
  Herbert Chitepo
  Herbert Wiltshire Chitepo led the Zimbabwe African National Union until he was assassinated on March 1975. Although his murderer remains unidentified, the Rhodesian author Peter Stiff says that a former British SAS soldier, Hugh Hind was responsible.Chitepo became the first black citizen of...
  
   - former leader of ZANU (deceased)
• George Mutandwa Chiweshe
  George Mutandwa Chiweshe
  Retired Brigadier General George Mutandwa Chiweshe is the Chairperson of the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. He was born in the Mazowe district of Mashonaland Central, just northeast of Harare. Chiweshe attended Tendayi Primary School in 1961 and subsequently Fletcher Secondary School in 1969...
  
  
• Fay Chung
  Fay Chung
  Fay King Chung is a Zimbabwean educator and an independent candidate for the March 2008 Zimbabwean senatorial election. She is one of the early public supporters of independent presidential candidate, Simba Makoni, who announced his presidential candidacy in early February 2008...
  
  
• Guy Clutton-Brock
  Guy Clutton-Brock
  Arthur Guy Clutton-Brock was an English social worker, who became a Zimbabwean nationalist and co-founder of Cold Comfort Farm....
  
   - politician and farmer (deceased)
• Charles Coghlan
  Charles Patrick John Coghlan
  Sir Charles Patrick John Coghlan was the first Premier of Southern Rhodesia and held office from October 1, 1923 until his death on August 28, 1927....
  
   - former Premier of Southern Rhodesia, leader of Rhodesian Party (deceased)
• Dumiso Dabengwa
  Dumiso Dabengwa
  Dumiso Dabengwa is a Zimbabwean politician. He served as the head of ZIPRA intelligence during the Rhodesian Bush War.In 1982 he was charged, with Lookout Masuku and four others, of treason by the Mugabe administration. They were acquitted, for lack of evidence in 1983. On release they were...
  
  
• Margaret Dongo
  Margaret Dongo
  -Liberation war:In 1975 she left secondary school to cross into Mozambique to join the guerrillas, adopting the chimurenga name of Tichaona Muhondo . She described the ZANLA leader Josiah Tongogara as "principled. He was unwavering in knowing what he was fighting for and could not easily be driven...
  
  - Former Independent MP
• Fletcher Dulini
  Fletcher Dulini
  Fletcher Dulini is a Zimbabwean politician and a member of the Movement for Democratic Change political party.-References:...
  
  
• Enoch Dumbutshena
  Enoch Dumbutshena
  Enoch Dumbutshena was a distinguished Zimbabwean judge known for defending the independence of that country's judicial branch. He became Zimbabwe's first black judge in 1980 and served as Chief Justice from 1984 to 1990. Dumbutshena's decisions were often highly critical of President Robert Mugabe...
  
  - Chief Justice Zimbabwe High Court;Founder FORUM Party (deceased)
• Winston Field
  Winston Field
  Winston Joseph Field MBE was a Rhodesian politician. Field was a former Dominion Party MP who founded the Rhodesian Front political party with Ian Douglas Smith. Field was born and brought up in Bromsgrove in the United Kingdom, and moved to Southern Rhodesia in 1921...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, leader of Rhodesian Front
  Rhodesian Front
  The Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the...
  
   (deceased)
• Guy Georgias
  Guy Georgias
  Guy Georgias is the Zimbabwe Deputy Minister of Public Works.-References:...
  
  
• Border Gezi
  Border Gezi
  Border Gezi was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor....
  
  
• Aleck Gumbo
  Aleck Gumbo
  -References:...
  
  
• Josiah Zion Gumede
  Josiah Zion Gumede
  Josiah Zion Gumede was the only president of the self-proclaimed, and internationally unrecognised, state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia during 1979, before Rhodesia briefly reverted to British rule until the country's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980...
  
  
• Munyaradzi Gwisai
  Munyaradzi Gwisai
  Munyaradzi Gwisai is a Zimbabwean politician and general coordinator of the International Socialist Organization in Zimbabwe...
  
  
• Sally Hayfron
  Sally Hayfron
  Sarah Francesca Mugabe , a.k.a Sally Mugabe, was the first wife of Robert Mugabe, the President of Zimbabwe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from 1987 until her death in 1992. She was popularly known as Amai in Zimbabwe...
  
  
• Byron Hove
  Byron Hove
  Byron R. Hove served as Justice Minister in Zimbabwe Rhodesia with Hilary Squires as co-minister. He supported and participated in Prime Minister Ian Smith's Internal Settlement...
  
  
• Godfrey Huggins - former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia and Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  This is a list of the men who served as Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . The Federation was formed on 1 August 1953 from the former colonies of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was formally dissolved on 31 December 1963.-List of Prime Ministers of...
  
  , leader of United Rhodesia Party
  United Rhodesia Party
  The name United Rhodesia Party and the acronym, URP, refer to two political parties in Southern Rhodesia.The first was the party, led by Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, and which in 1933 came to power in the colony...
  
   (deceased)
• Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi
  Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association beginning in 1997.-Early life:...
  
   - War Veterans leader (deceased)
• Tichaona Jokonya
  Tichaona Jokonya
  Dr Tichaona Joseph Benjamin Jokonya was a Zimbabwean politician, civil servant and diplomat.-Early life:Jokonya was born in the Charter District, since renamed Chikomba and attended Lourdes Mission and Kutama Secondary School before training as a primary schoolteacher. After six years he was...
  
  
• Learnmore Jongwe
  Learnmore Jongwe
  Learnmore Jongwe was the first spokesman for the Zimbabwean Movement for Democratic Change Party and Member of Parliament for Kuwadzana.In July 2002, he confessed to having murdered his wife after finding her having sex with another man....
  
  
• Patrick Kombayi
  Patrick Kombayi
  Patrick Kombayi was a Zimbabwean businessman, a former mayor of Gweru and an active member of the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai faction in the Midlands Province...
  
   - Opposition politician (deceased)
• Wilson Kumbula
• Lovemore Madhuku
  Lovemore Madhuku
  Lovemore Madhuku was born on July 20, 1966. He is married to Annamercy and has two children, a daughter Tendai and a son Nyasha .- Education :...
  
  
• Moven Mahachi
  Moven Mahachi
  Moven Enock Mahachi served as the Minister of Defence of the Republic of Zimbabwe. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within Z.A.N.U.-P.F.. Before becoming Defence Minister Mahachi served as M.P. for Makoni West....
  
  
• Charles Shanyurai Majange
  Charles Shanyurai Majange
  -References:...
  
  
• Alfred Makwarimba
  Alfred Makwarimba
  Alfred Makwarimba is the President of the Zimbabwe Federation of Trade Unions.-References:...
  
  
• Washington Malianga
  Washington Malianga
  Washington Malianga is one of several leaders of the Zimbabwe African People's Union who left ZAPU in 1963 and founded the Zimbabwe African National Union. ZAPU leader Joshua Nkomo suspended their membership due to their opposition to his continued leadership. The other leaders were Ndabaningi...
  
  
• Witness Mangwende
  Witness Mangwende
  Witness Pasichigare Magunda Mangwende was a Zimbabwean politician who served as head of several government ministries in the Mugabe administration, and as provincial governor for Harare....
  
  
• Elliot Manyika
  Elliot Manyika
  Elliot Tapfumaneyi Manyika was a Zimbabwean politician, who served as Minister without Portfolio and the National political Commissar for ZANU-PF....
  
  
• Muchadeyi Masunda
  Muchadeyi Masunda
  Muchadeyi Masunda is currently the non-executive mayor of Harare, the capital city of Zimbabwe.As chairman of 12 companies and director of two, the 53 year old is also well known in Zimbabwean cricket, golf and tennis...
  
  
• Cain Mathema
• Lovemore Matombo
  Lovemore Matombo
  Lovemore Matombo is the President of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions .Police arrested Matombo in March 2007 for allegedly assaulting his daughter-in-law, Mary-Ane Nyathi, on February 11. Magistrate Robson Finsin of Harare Magistrates' Court found him innocent on June 29, 2007 on the grounds...
  
  
• Bright Matonga
  Bright Matonga
  Bright Matonga is a Zimbabwean politician. He is formerly the Deputy Information Minister in the cabinet of president Robert Mugabe. In the 2008 parliamentary election, as a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front, he was elected from the Mhondoro-Ngezi constituency....
  
  
• Isaac Matongo
  Isaac Matongo
  Isaac Matongo was a Zimbabwean politician and labor activist, born in Masvingo.Matongo was elected vice-president of the National Engineering Workers' Union in 1988, eventually serving in the same position with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions...
  
  
• Amos Midzi
  Amos Midzi
  Amos Bernard Midzi is a Zimbabwean politician who served in the Cabinet successively as Minister of Energy and Power Development and Minister of Mines and Mining Development from 2002 to 2009....
  
  
• Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga
  Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga
  Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga is a Zimbabwean politician and former member of the House of Assembly for Glen Norah. During her time as Glen Norah's MP, she also served as the shadow foreign minister for the Movement for Democratic Change. When the party split in 2005, she remained with the MDC...
  
  
• George Mitchell
  George Mitchell (Rhodesia)
  George Mitchell served as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from July to September 1933. Born in the United Kingdom, he emigrated to South Africa in 1889, and moved to Matabeleland six years later to work as the manager of the Bank of Africa branch in Bulawayo...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, leader of Rhodesian Party (deceased)
• Promise Mkwananzi
  Promise Mkwananzi
  Promise Mkwananzi is a youthful, charismatic, Zmbabwean politician, he is the ex-President of the Zimbabwe National Student Union . In his career as a student leader, MKwananzi was expelled from the University of Zimbabwe. He was also arrested numerous times for leading students protests against...
  
  
• Emmerson Mnangagwa
  Emmerson Mnangagwa
  Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa is a Zimbabwean politician who has been Minister of Defense since February 2009. He was previously Minister of State Security from 1982 to 1988, then Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs until 2000; he was Speaker of Parliament from July 2000 to 2005 and...
  
   - Minister of Defence, former Speaker of Parliament
• Max Mnkandla
  Max Mnkandla
  Max Mnkandla is the President of the Zimbabwe Liberators' Peace Initiative. He fought in the Rhodesian Bush War.His father, Siqanywana, died in the Gukurahundi massacres of the 1980s...
  
  
• Howard Unwin Moffat
  Howard Unwin Moffat
  Howard Unwin Moffat served as second premier of Southern Rhodesia, from 1927 to 1933. Born in the Kuruman mission station in Bechuanaland , Moffat was the son of the missionary John Smith Moffat and grandson of the missionary Robert Moffat, who was the friend of King Mzilikazi and the...
  
   - former Premier of Southern Rhodesia, leader of Rhodesian Party (deceased)
• Jonathan Moyo
  Jonathan Moyo
  Jonathan Nathaniel Moyo is a controversial political figure in Zimbabwe. He was Minister of Information from 2000 to 2005 and is currently a Member of Parliament. He is considered the core architect of AIPPA and POSA....
  
   - MP and former Information Minister
• Swithun Mombeshora
  Swithun Mombeshora
  Swithun Mombeshora was a former Minister of Transport and Communications and Higher and Tertiary Education in Zimbabwe.-References:...
  
  
• Simbi Mubako
  Simbi Mubako
  Simbi Veke Mubako is the ambassador of Zimbabwe to the United States.Mubako attributed Western opposition to the government of Robert Mugabe as a continued campaign by the British government to colonize Zimbabwe....
  
  
• Olivia Muchena
  Olivia Muchena
  Olivia Nyembezi Muchena is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving in the Cabinet of Zimbabwe as Minister of Women's Affairs. She was previously the Minister of Science and Technology Development....
  
  
• Opa Muchinguri
  Opa Muchinguri
  Opa Chamu Zvipange Muchinguri is a Zimbabwean politician, currently serving as Minister of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development. She ran as the ZANU-PF candidate for Mutasa Central constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election, but was defeated by Trevor Saruwaka, a candidate of...
  
  
• Elias Mudzuri
  Elias Mudzuri
  Elias Mudzuri is a Zimbabwean engineer and politician. Mudzuri was elected to a four-year term as Mayor of Harare, a city of 1.8 million, in March 2002. Trained in Sierre Leone as a civil engineer, the mayor is a Fellow of the Zimbabwe Institution of Engineers. Before becoming mayor, he had worked...
  
  
• Grace Mugabe
  Grace Mugabe
  Grace Mugabe , , is the second wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from her marriage to the leader in 1996....
  
  
• Robert Mugabe
  Robert Mugabe
  Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the President of Zimbabwe. As one of the leaders of the liberation movement against white-minority rule, he was elected into power in 1980...
  
   - President of Zimbabwe and leader of ZANU-PF
• Witlaw Mugwiji
  Witlaw Mugwiji
  -Attempted arrest:In June 2007 Masvingo University security officers beat Mugwiji so badly he required hospitalization. At around the same time police tried unsuccessfully to arrest Promise Mkwananzi , confiscated the passport of Movement for Democratic Change President Arthur Mutambara, and raided...
  
  
• Joyce Mujuru
  Joyce Mujuru
  Joice Mujuru is a Zimbabwean politician serving as Vice President of Zimbabwe. She has held this post since December 2004, and is also Vice President of ZANU-PF...
  
   - Vice-President
• Solomon Mujuru
  Solomon Mujuru
  Solomon Mujuru, also known as Rex Nhongo was a Zimbabwean military officer and politician who led Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was from the Zezuru clan. In post-independence Zimbabwe, he went on to become army chief before leaving government service in 1995...
  
  
• Elphas Mukonoweshuro
  Elphas Mukonoweshuro
  Elphas Mukonoweshuro was a Zimbabwean political scientist and politician. A former University of Zimbabwe Dean of Social Studies, he was the Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai member of parliament for Gutu South in Masvingo Province...
  
  
• Glory Mukwati
  Glory Mukwati
  Glory Mukwati was a Zimbabwean politician. Glory was a member of the Mutambara faction of the Movement for Democratic Change and was, before her death, the parliamentary candidate for Gwanda South. Mukwati died on February 26 2008 from a severe stroke....
  
  
• Samuel Mumbengegwi
  Samuel Mumbengegwi
  Samuel Creighton Mumbengegwi is a Zimbabwean politician.Mumbengegwi served for a time as Minister of Higher Education and as ZANU-PF Chairperson for Masvingo. According to the Commercial Farmers Union in 2002, he took over Irvin Farm from its white owners as part of land reform...
  
  
• Munacho Mutezo
  Munacho Mutezo
  Munacho T. A. Mutezo is the Minister of State Water Resources and Infrastructural Development for Zimbabwe.- References :...
  
  
• Chris Mushohwe
  Chris Mushohwe
  Christopher Chindeti "Chris" Mushohwe is a Zimbabwean politician. He was the ZANU-PF candidate for Mutare West constituency in the March 2008 parliamentary election, but was very narrowly defeated according to official results. He received 7,577 votes, 20 less than the total received by Movement...
  
  
• Arthur Mutambara
  Arthur Mutambara
  Arthur Guseni Oliver Mutambara is a Zimbabwean politician. He became the President of the Movement for Democratic Change-Mutambara faction in February 2006. He has worked as the Managing Director and CEO of Africa Technology and Business Institute since September 2003...
  
   - Deputy Prime Minister, leader of MDC-M party
• Charles Mutasa
  Charles Mutasa
  Charles Mutasa is a Vice-President of the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council, for the region of Southern Africa....
  
  
• Giles Mutsekwa
  Giles Mutsekwa
  Giles Mutsekwa is a Zimbabwean politician. He was appointed to the unity government as one of two co-ministers of Home Affairs by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in February 2009 and sworn into office on February 13. He concurrently served as secretary for Security and Intelligence of the MDC-T,...
  
  
• Simon Muzenda
  Simon Muzenda
  Simon Vengai Muzenda was a Shona from the Karanga group, a Zimbabwean politician who served as a Deputy Prime Minister and vice president under President Robert Mugabe, a Shona Zezeru....
  
   - former Vice-President of Zimbabwe (deceased)
• Abel Muzorewa
  Abel Muzorewa
  Bishop Abel Tendekayi Muzorewa served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia from the Internal Settlement to the Lancaster House Agreement in 1979...
  
  - former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
• Ben Ncube
  Ben Ncube
  Lieutenant Colonel Ben Ncube is the spokesman for the Zimbabwe National Army.Mercenaries attempted to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea by departing in a plane from Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe National Army seized the plane on March 9, 2004 before it took off and arrested the mercenaries...
  
  
• Japhet Ndabeni Ncube
  Japhet Ndabeni Ncube
  Japhet Ndabeni Ncube is a Zimbabwean politician. He is the current mayor of Bulawayo, the second largest city in the country.-External links:*...
  
  
• Welshman Ncube
  Welshman Ncube
  Welshman Ncube is a Zimbabwean politician. He is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change – Mutambara, and since February 2009 has been the Minister of Industry and Commerce. He was elected as a member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for Bulawayo North East in the 2000 election and...
  
   - Minister of Industry and Commerce
• Francis Nhema
• Joshua Nkomo
  Joshua Nkomo
  Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo was the leader and founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union and a member of the Kalanga tribe...
  
   - former Vice-President of Zimbabwe (deceased)
• Enos Nkala
  Enos Nkala
  Enos Nkala is one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union. During the war, he served on the ZANU high command, or Dare reChimurenga...
  
  
• Denis Norman
  Denis Norman
  Denis Norman is an English-born Zimbabwean former politician who spent a total of twelve years in the Cabinet of Robert Mugabe. He was known as "Nothing Wrong Norman" due to his calm attitude when dealing with problems.-Career:...
  
  
• Maurice Nyagumbo
  Maurice Nyagumbo
  Tapfumaneyi Maurice Nyagumbo was a Zimbabwean politician.Working in South Africa in the 1940s, he joined the South African Communist Party. He spent most of the years 1957 to 1979 in detention in Southern Rhodesia. During this time he wrote an autobiography, With the People...
  
  
• Mike Nyambuya
  Mike Nyambuya
  Michael Rueben Nyambuya is a Zimbabwean politician who has served as Governor of Manicaland and as Minister of Energy and Power Development.Nyambuya is a former army general...
  
  
• George Nyandoro
  George Nyandoro
  George Nyandoro served as the General Secretary of Zimbabwe African People's Union. An ethnic Shona, Nyandoro was one of the founders of the Southern Rhodesia African National Congress. The late National Hero Cde...
  
  
• Mark Partridge
  Mark Partridge
  Mark Henry Heathcote Partridge was the Minister of Lands and Natural Resources of Rhodesia. He lived in Greendale, Harare and won 79.3% of the vote in Greendale in the 1977 general election....
  
  
• Engelbert Rugeje
  Engelbert Rugeje
  Major General Engelbert Rugeje is the Chief of Staff of the Zimbabwe National Army. He was born in Bikita, Charamba Village, he's an heir of the Charamba family who of the Duma clanand educated at Silveira Mission where he excelled before he joined the ZANLA guerrilla freedom fighters at the age of...
  
  
• Tinos Rusere
  Tinos Rusere
  Tinos Rusere was a Zimbabwean miner and trade union activist. During the Second Chimurenga he recruited members of ZANLA and he was later elected as a Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front member to the Parliament of Zimbabwe...
  
  
• Thompson Samkange
  Thompson Samkange
  Thompson Smakkage was a major figure in the history of Rhodesian/Zimbabwean independence. He led the African National Council in 1945, and was one of the founders of the Bantu National Congress....
  
  
• Nathan Shamuyarira
  Nathan Shamuyarira
  Nathan Shamuyarira was a Zimbabwean nationalist who at different times fought on behalf of and helped lead FROLIZI, ZANU, and ZAPU. He later served as the Information Minister of Zimbabwe and as the Information Secretary of ZANU PF. He is writing President Robert Mugabe's biography.On 19 October...
  
  
• Daniel Shumba
  Daniel Shumba
  Daniel Shumba is a former Zimbabwe Army colonel and businessman, was invited into politics and rose to Masvingo provincial chairman of the ZANU-PF political party. In 2006, he left the party in a fallout over the unresolved issue of Robert Mugabe succession. Later in that year, he announced the...
  
  
• Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
  Felix Magalela Mafa Sibanda
  Felix Mafa is a Zimbabwean activist, politician and member of parliament for Magwegwe in Bulawayo for the MDC-T party, as well as being provincial spokesperson for that party.In 1980 he was the ZAPU PF candidate for Mashonaland Central constituent in Harare....
  
  
• Jabulani Sibanda
  Jabulani Sibanda
  Jabulani Sibanda is the chairman of Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association , an organization originally comprising all the veterans that fought during the Second Chimurenga or Zimbabwe War of Liberation which ended in 1979. Sibanda was 9 years old at that time. Under his leadership...
  
  
• Nkululeko Sibanda
  Nkululeko Sibanda
  Nkululeko Mkastos Sibanda is a Zimbabwean politician. He was born in the Gweru, Zimbabwe in 1979 to a family descending from the Shangaan people.-Politics:...
  
  
• Ndabaningi Sithole
  Ndabaningi Sithole
  Ndabaningi Sithole founded the Zimbabwe African National Union, a militant organization that opposed the government of Rhodesia, in July 1963. A member of the Ndau ethnic group, he also worked as a Methodist minister. He spent 10 years in prison after the government banned ZANU...
  
  - former President leader of ZANU and later ZANU-Ndonga (deceased)
• Ian Smith
  Ian Smith
  Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Rhodesia
  Prime Minister of Rhodesia
  The Prime Minister of Rhodesia was the head of government in the colony of Rhodesia. Rhodesia's political system was modelled on the Westminster system and the Prime Minister's role was similar to that of the same position in other countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New...
  
  , leader of Rhodesian Front
  Rhodesian Front
  The Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the...
  
   and Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe
  Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe
  The Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe was the final incarnation of a party formerly called the Republican Front and prior to that the Rhodesian Front...
  
   (deceased)
• Timothy Stamps
  Timothy Stamps
  Timothy Stamps is a Zimbabwean political figure who served as Minister of Health from 1986 to 2002. For most of this period, he was the only white member of the government.-Early life and career:...
  
  
• Trudy Stevenson
  Trudy Stevenson
  Trudy Stevenson is a Zimbabwean politician. She was Member of Parliament for Harare North in the Parliament of Zimbabwe...
  
  
• Leopold Takawira
  Leopold Takawira
  Leopold Takawira served as the Vice President of the Zimbabwe African National Union after supporting the National Democratic Party and later the Zimbabwe African People's Union.Leopold Takawira was also known by his Mhazi to totem as 'Shumba yeChirumanzi'Takawira was born at Chirumanzi, Victoria...
  
  
• Edgar Tekere
  Edgar Tekere
  Edgar Zivanai Tekere was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a president of the Zimbabwe African National Union who organised the party during the Lancaster House talks and served in government before his popularity as a potential rival to Robert Mugabe caused their...
  
  - former Secretary-General ZANU-PF, former Leader of Zimbabwe Unity Movement
  Zimbabwe Unity Movement
  The Zimbabwe Unity Movement, was a short lived political movement in Zimbabwe. It served as a successor and link to the Conservative Alliance of Zimbabwe...
  
   (deceased)
• Garfield Todd
  Garfield Todd
  Sir Reginald Stephen Garfield Todd was a reformist Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 and later became an opponent of white minority rule in Rhodesia. He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand.-Background:...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, leader of United Rhodesia Party
  United Rhodesia Party
  The name United Rhodesia Party and the acronym, URP, refer to two political parties in Southern Rhodesia.The first was the party, led by Sir Godfrey Martin Huggins, and which in 1933 came to power in the colony...
  
  , United Federal Party
  United Federal Party
  The United Federal Party, previously known as the United Party and the United Rhodesia Party, was one of Southern Rhodesia's most successful political parties, and governed the country for over 30 years...
  
   and Central Africa Party, opponent of white minority rule and former member of the Senate of Zimbabwe
  Senate of Zimbabwe
  The Senate of Zimbabwe is the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. It existed from 1980 to 1989, and was re-introduced in November 2005....
  
   (deceased)
• Judith Todd
  Judith Todd
  Judith Todd is daughter of Garfield Todd , Rhodesian Prime Minister 1953-8, and a political activist regarding Zimbabwe. She had been married from 1974 for ten years to Sir Richard Acton....
  
  
• Langton Towungana
  Langton Towungana
  Langton Towungana was an independent presidential candidate in the Zimbabwean presidential election held on March 29, 2008. His opponents were Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change, Simba Makoni, another independent candidate, and incumbent President Robert Mugabe of...
  
  
• Josiah Tungamirai
  Josiah Tungamirai
  Air Chief Marshal Josiah Tungamirai , born Thomas Mberikwazvo, was a Zimbabwean military officer and politician...
  
  
• Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Tsvangirai
  Morgan Richard Tsvangirai is the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe. He is the President of the Movement for Democratic Change - Tsvangirai and a key figure in the opposition to President Robert Mugabe. Tsvangirai was sworn in as the Prime Minister of Zimbabwe on 11 February 2009...
  
   - Prime Minister Republic of Zimbabwe, leader of MDC-T party
• Herbert Ushewokunze
  Herbert Ushewokunze
  Doctor Herbert Ushewokunze served as the Home Affairs Minister of Zimbabwe. A founding member of the Zimbabwe African National Union, Ushewokunze strongly supported President Robert Mugabe until he fell out of favor....
  
  
• Denis Walker
  Denis Walker
  Wilfrid Denis Walker is a former Rhodesian cabinet minister resident in the United Kingdom. He is known for his monarchist activities and anti-communism and is also the Company Secretary, Director and Treasurer of the International Monarchist League and its UK subsidiary, the Constitutional...
  
  
• Roy Welensky
  Roy Welensky
  Sir Raphael "Roy" Welensky, KCMG was a Northern Rhodesian politician and the second and last prime minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland...
  
   - former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland
  This is a list of the men who served as Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . The Federation was formed on 1 August 1953 from the former colonies of Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and was formally dissolved on 31 December 1963.-List of Prime Ministers of...
  
  , leader of United Federal Party
  United Federal Party
  The United Federal Party, previously known as the United Party and the United Rhodesia Party, was one of Southern Rhodesia's most successful political parties, and governed the country for over 30 years...
  
   (deceased)
• Edgar Whitehead
  Edgar Whitehead
  Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, OBE, was a Rhodesian politician. He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesia Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness. In particular he had poor eyesight, and wore very thick glasses, and later...
  
   - former Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, leader of United Federal Party
  United Federal Party
  The United Federal Party, previously known as the United Party and the United Rhodesia Party, was one of Southern Rhodesia's most successful political parties, and governed the country for over 30 years...
  
   (deceased)

Military and Security Service Leaders

• Happyton Bonyongwe
  Happyton Bonyongwe
  Happyton Bonyongwe is the director general of the Zimbabwean government spy agency, the Central Intelligence Organisation . He is a retired Brigadier in the Zimbabwe National Army. Under his leadership, the CIO has become more potent, with countless citizens vanishing or dead at the hands of CIO...
  
   - current director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation and former Brigadier
  Brigadier
  Brigadier is a senior military rank, the meaning of which is somewhat different in different military services. The brigadier rank is generally superior to the rank of colonel, and subordinate to major general....
  
   in the Zimbabwe National Army
  Zimbabwe National Army
  The Zimbabwe National Army is the land warfare branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The ZNA currently has an active duty strength of 30,000.-History:...
  
  
• Constantine Chiwenga
  Constantine Chiwenga
  - Personal life :He was born in 1956 in Hwedza district of Mashonaland East Province. General Chiwenga was educated up to Form 4 at St Mary's Mission in Hwedza, together with Air Marshal Perence Shiri and Brigadier General Shungu, Commander Mechanised Brigade....
  
   - current commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces
• Dumiso Dabengwa
  Dumiso Dabengwa
  Dumiso Dabengwa is a Zimbabwean politician. He served as the head of ZIPRA intelligence during the Rhodesian Bush War.In 1982 he was charged, with Lookout Masuku and four others, of treason by the Mugabe administration. They were acquitted, for lack of evidence in 1983. On release they were...
  
   - former head of ZIPRA
  ZIPRA
  Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, a political party in Rhodesia. It participated in the Second Chimurenga against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia....
  
   intelligence
• Azim Daudpota
  Azim Daudpota
  Air Marshal Mohammed Azim Daudpota, commonly known as Azim Daudpota, was a three-star officer in the Pakistan Air Force who went on to briefly serve as Governor of Sindh.-Air force career:...
  
   - second commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
  Air Force of Zimbabwe
  The Air Force of Zimbabwe is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001....
  
  
• Ken Flower
  Ken Flower
  Ken Flower was of Cornish extraction and worked for H.M. Customs & Excise before joining the British South Africa Police in Southern Rhodesia in 1937. After war service in British Somaliland and Ethiopia he returned to Rhodesia in 1948 rapidly rising in the hierarchy of the BSAP...
  
   - former head of the Central Intelligence Organisation, 1961 to mid 1980s (deceased)
• Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai Hunzvi
  Chenjerai "Hitler" Hunzvi served as Chairman of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association beginning in 1997.-Early life:...
  
   - former ZIPRA
  ZIPRA
  Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, a political party in Rhodesia. It participated in the Second Chimurenga against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia....
  
   soldier and former war veterans leader (deceased)
• Alfred Nikita Mangena - former commander of ZIPRA
  ZIPRA
  Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, a political party in Rhodesia. It participated in the Second Chimurenga against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia....
  
   (deceased)
• Elson Moyo
  Elson Moyo
  Air Vice-Marshal Elson Moyo was a deputy commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and one of the main figures in the 2007 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt....
  
   - former deputy commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and key figure in the 2007 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt
  2007 Zimbabwean coup d'état attempt
  The Zimbabwean government foiled an alleged coup d'état attempt involving almost 400 soldiers and high-ranking members of the military that would have occurred on June 2 or June 15, 2007...
  
  
• Solomon Mujuru
  Solomon Mujuru
  Solomon Mujuru, also known as Rex Nhongo was a Zimbabwean military officer and politician who led Robert Mugabe's guerrilla forces during the Rhodesian Bush War. He was from the Zezuru clan. In post-independence Zimbabwe, he went on to become army chief before leaving government service in 1995...
  
   - former commander of ZANLA after Josiah Tongogara, second commander of the Zimbabwe National Army
  Zimbabwe National Army
  The Zimbabwe National Army is the land warfare branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The ZNA currently has an active duty strength of 30,000.-History:...
  
  
• Perence Shiri
  Perence Shiri
  Air Marshal Perence Shiri is the current commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe and a member of the Joint Operations Command which exerts day-by-day control over Zimbabwe's government.Perence Shiri is a cousin of President Robert Mugabe...
  
   - former commander of the Fifth Brigade
  Zimbabwean Fifth Brigade
  The Fifth Brigade was an elite unit of specially trained Zimbabwean soldiers. The Fifth Brigade was formed in 1981 and disbanded in 1988 after allegations of brutality and murder during the Brigade's occupation of Matabeleland...
  
   and incumbent commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
  Air Force of Zimbabwe
  The Air Force of Zimbabwe is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001....
  
  
• Jabulani Sibanda
  Jabulani Sibanda
  Jabulani Sibanda is the chairman of Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association , an organization originally comprising all the veterans that fought during the Second Chimurenga or Zimbabwe War of Liberation which ended in 1979. Sibanda was 9 years old at that time. Under his leadership...
  
   - former ZIPRA
  ZIPRA
  Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army was the armed wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, a political party in Rhodesia. It participated in the Second Chimurenga against white minority rule in the former Rhodesia....
  
   soldier and current war veterans leader
• Josiah Tongogara
  Josiah Tongogara
  Josiah Magama Tongogara was a commander of the ZANLA guerrilla army in Rhodesia. He attended the Lancaster House conference that led to Zimbabwe's independence and the end of white minority rule...
  
   - former commander of ZANLA (deceased)
• Josiah Tungamirai
  Josiah Tungamirai
  Air Chief Marshal Josiah Tungamirai , born Thomas Mberikwazvo, was a Zimbabwean military officer and politician...
  
    - former political commissar
  Political commissar
  The political commissar is the supervisory political officer responsible for the political education and organisation, and loyalty to the government of the military...
  
   of ZANLA, third commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
  Air Force of Zimbabwe
  The Air Force of Zimbabwe is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001....
  
   (deceased)
• Norman Walsh - former senior officer, Rhodesian Air Force and first commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe
  Air Force of Zimbabwe
  The Air Force of Zimbabwe is the air force of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. It was known as the Rhodesian Air Force until 1980. The Air Force of Zimbabwe saw service in the Mozambican Civil War in 1985 and the Second Congo War of 1998–2001....
  
   (deceased)
• Peter Walls
  Peter Walls
  Lieutenant General George Peter Walls MBE GLM served as the Commander of the Combined Operations Headquarters of the Military of Rhodesia, and later Zimbabwe, from 1977 until his retirement on 29 July 1980 during the Rhodesian Bush War...
  
   - former Commander of the Combined Operations Headquarters of the Rhodesian military, first commander of the Zimbabwe National Army
  Zimbabwe National Army
  The Zimbabwe National Army is the land warfare branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The ZNA currently has an active duty strength of 30,000.-History:...
  
  
• Vitalis Zvinavashe
  Vitalis Zvinavashe
  Lt. Gen. Vitalis Zvinavashe was a retired former Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces and politician. He was also a member of the Politburo of the ZANU-PF...
  
   - third commander of the Zimbabwe National Army
  Zimbabwe National Army
  The Zimbabwe National Army is the land warfare branch of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces. The ZNA currently has an active duty strength of 30,000.-History:...
  
   and first commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (deceased)

Sports

• Byron Black
  Byron Black
  Byron Black is a former touring professional tennis and Davis Cup player for Zimbabwe.- Biography :He is the brother of Cara and Wayne Black, both professional tennis players...
  
   (born 1969) - retired professional tennis
  Tennis
  Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all...
  
   player, won grand slams
  Grand Slam (tennis)
  The four Major tennis tournaments, also called the Slams, are the most important tennis events of the year in terms of world tour ranking points, tradition, prize-money awarded, strength and size of player field, and public attention. They are the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon, and...
  
   doubles
• Cara Black
  Cara Black
  Cara Black is a professional female tennis player from Zimbabwe. She has won 7 singles titles and 63 women's doubles titles. She has won all four Grand Slam mixed doubles titles and three of the four Grand Slam titles in women's doubles. She is currently ranked World No. 28 in women's doubles...
  
   (born 1979) - active professional tennis player, won grand slams
• Wayne Black
  Wayne Black
  Wayne Hamilton Black is a former professional male tennis player from Zimbabwe.Black is the son of Don and Velia Black and the brother of Cara Black and Byron Black, also professional tennis players. He attended the University of Southern California and was an All-American in singles and doubles...
  
   (born 1973) - retired professional tennis player, won grand slams doubles
• Warren Carne
  Warren Carne
  Warren James Carne born 14 October 1975 in Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Rhodesia is a former Zimbabwean Mountain biker.-Early years:...
  
   (born 1975) - cyclist, competed at 2007 African MTB Championships
• Tendai Chimusasa
  Tendai Chimusasa
  Tendai Chimusasa is a retired Zimbabwean long-distance runner. He carried the flag for his native country at the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia...
  
   (born 1971) - retired long distance runner
• Kirsty Coventry
  Kirsty Coventry
  Kirsty Leigh Coventry is a Zimbabwean swimmer and world record holder. She attended and swam competitively for Auburn University in Alabama, in the United States...
  
   (born 1983) - Olympic
  Olympic Games
  The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
  
   champion swimmer
  Swimming (sport)
  Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...
  
  
• Duncan Fletcher
  Duncan Fletcher
  Duncan Andrew Gwynne Fletcher OBE is a former Zimbabwean cricketer, formerly captain of the Zimbabwean cricket team and the current coach of the Indian Cricket Team. He has been appointed as coach of the Indian Cricket Team on April 27, 2011...
  
   (born 1948) - former national cricket
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
  
   captain
  Captain (cricket)
  The captain of a cricket team often referred to as the skipper is the appointed leader, having several additional roles and responsibilities over and above those of a regular player...
  
   and former England cricket team coach
• Andy Flower
  Andy Flower
  Andrew "Andy" Flower OBE is a former international cricketer for Zimbabwe and is currently the England coach.-Playing career:...
  
   (born 1968) - former Test cricket
  Test cricket
  Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...
  
  er and national captain
• Bruce Grobbelaar
  Bruce Grobbelaar
  Bruce David Grobbelaar is a former football goalkeeper and manager.He played for a number of clubs in a career which spanned for more than 20 years at professional level, most notably Liverpool during their dominant period in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Early years:In his teenage years, Grobbelaar...
  
   (born 1957) - retired professional football
  Football (soccer)
  Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...
  
   goalkeeper, played for Liverpool F.C.
  Liverpool F.C.
  Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups...
  
  . Started his playing days at Highlanders
  Highlanders FC
  Highlanders FC is a Zimbabwean football club based in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, formed in 1926. It is arguably the best supported and most successful team in the Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League with a following found in all corners of the country and the world at large.-History:19th century- Colonialists...
  
  , a local club based in Bulawayo
  Bulawayo
  Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...
  
  .
• Jonathan Hunt
  Jonathan Hunt
  Jonathan Hunt may refer to:* Jonathan Hunt , politician from New Zealand* Jonathan Hunt , U.S. Representative from Vermont* Jonathan Hunt , Vermont Lieutenant Governor...
  
   (born 1984) - cyclist
• Beast Mtawarira - professional rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
   player playing for Natal Sharks
  Natal Sharks
  The Natal Sharks are a South African rugby union team that participate in the annual Currie Cup and Super Rugby tournaments. The Sharks home stadium is Kings Park. They draw most of their players from the KwaZulu-Natal Province. The Sharks are the current representative team of the Natal rugby...
  
   and Springboks.
• Benjani Mwaruwari
  Benjani Mwaruwari
  Benjamin Mwaruwari , known as Benjani, is a Zimbabwean footballer who currently plays for Portsmouth in the Football League Championship, where he plays as a striker....
  
   (born 1978) - active professional footballer playing for Manchester City, previously played for AJ Auxerre
  AJ Auxerre
  Association de la Jeunesse Auxerroise is a French association football club based in the commune of Auxerre in Burgundy. The club was founded in 1905 and currently play in Ligue 1, the top division of French football. Auxerre plays its home matches at the Stade l'Abbé-Deschamps on the banks of the...
  
   and Portsmouth F.C.
  Portsmouth F.C.
  Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the city of Portsmouth. The club is nicknamed Pompey. Portsmouth's home matches have been played at Fratton Park since the club's formation in 1898. The team currently play in the Football League Championship after being relegated from...
  
  . Graduated from the Highlanders junior teams in Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe
  Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
  
  
• Waddington Mwayenga
  Waddington Mwayenga
  Waddington Mwayenga is a Zimbabwean cricketer. He is primarily a medium pace bowler and plays his county cricket for Worcestershire 2nd XI...
  
   (born 1984) - cricketer
• Peter Ndlovu
  Peter Ndlovu
  Peter Ndlovu is a Zimbabwean footballer, who plays as a striker.-Coventry City:Ndlovu was originally spotted by John Sillett, prior to his official signing from Highlanders by Terry Butcher in July 1991...
  
   (born 1973) - active professional footballer playing for Mamelodi Sundowns FC, previously played for Coventry City F.C.
  Coventry City F.C.
  Coventry City Football Club, otherwise known as the Sky Blues owing to the traditional colour of their strip, are a professional English Football league club based in Coventry...
  
  , Birmingham City F.C.
  Birmingham City F.C.
  Birmingham City Football Club is a professional association football club based in the city of Birmingham, England. Formed in 1875 as Small Heath Alliance, they became Small Heath in 1888, then Birmingham in 1905, finally becoming Birmingham City in 1943.They were relegated at the end of the...
  
   and Sheffield United F.C.
  Sheffield United F.C.
  Sheffield United Football Club is a professional English football club based in the city of Sheffield, South Yorkshire.They were the first sporting team to use the name 'United' and are nicknamed 'The Blades', thanks to Sheffield's worldwide reputation for steel production...
  
  . In Zimbabwe he played for Highlanders.
• Henry Olonga
  Henry Olonga
  Henry Khaaba Olonga is a former Zambian-born cricketer for Zimbabwe.- Cricket career :He made his international debut in a Test match against Pakistan at Harare in 1995, at age 18 years, 212 days, becoming the youngest player to represent Zimbabwe. He helped Zimbabwe to its first ever Test victory...
  
   (born 1976) - retired professional cricketer
• Nick Price
  Nick Price
  Nicholas Raymond Leige Price is a South African-Zimbabwean Professional golfer and an inductee in the World Golf Hall of Fame. In the mid-1990s, Price reached number one in the Official World Golf Rankings.-Background:...
  
   (born 1957) - active professional golf
  Golf
  Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....
  
  er, British Open
  The Open Championship
  The Open Championship, or simply The Open , is the oldest of the four major championships in professional golf. It is the only "major" held outside the USA and is administered by The R&A, which is the governing body of golf outside the USA and Mexico...
  
   winner (1994), PGA Championship
  PGA Championship
  The PGA Championship is an annual golf tournament conducted by the PGA of America as part of the PGA Tour. It is one of the four major championships in men's professional golf, and is the golf season's final major, usually played in mid-August, customarily four weeks after The Open Championship...
  
   winner (1992, 1994), 2005 Bob Jones Award
  Bob Jones Award
  The Bob Jones Award is the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. It is named in honor of Bobby Jones.-Winners:*1955 Francis Ouimet*1956 William C. Campbell*1957 Babe Zaharias...
  
   winner, eventual World Golf Hall of Fame
  World Golf Hall of Fame
  The World Golf Hall of Fame is located at World Golf Village near St. Augustine, Florida, in the United States, and it is unusual among sports halls of fame in that a single site serves both men and women. It is supported by a consortium of 26 golf organizations from all over the world.The Hall of...
  
  r
• Vitalis Takawira
  Vitalis Takawira
  Vitalis "Digital" Takawira is a retired Zimbabwean football player. He has played forward and attacking midfield professionally in Zimbabwe, Switzerland and the United States, as well as for the Zimbabwe national team....
  
   (born 1972) - professional footballer, a product of Dynamos FC
• Kevin Ullyett
  Kevin Ullyett
  Kevin Ullyett is a former professional tennis player from Zimbabwe. His primary success on the tour has been in men's doubles. He has won 24 doubles titles, including the 2001 US Open and the 2005 Australian Open, both with Wayne Black...
  
   (born 1972) - active professional tennis player, won grand slams doubles
• Esrom Nyandoro
  Esrom Nyandoro
  Esrom Nyandoro is a Zimbabwean football midfielder. In his native Zimbabwe, Nyandoro is nicknamed "Yellowman".-Club career:...
  
  (born 1980) - active professional footballer playing for Mamelodi Sundowns FC, previously played for One Time League Champions Amazulu FC(Zimbabwe)
• Tinashe Nengomasha
  Tinashe Nengomasha
  Tinashe Nengomasha is a Zimbabwean football midfielder who plays for Kaizer Chiefs and Zimbabwe.-Zimbabwean National Team:...
  
  (born 1982) active professional footballer playing for Kaizer Chiefs FC