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Rex Nhongo's escape to Tanzania after the Chitepo assassination


The Zimbabwe Independent
March 20, 2020
THIS is the fourth extract from Blessing-Miles Tendi’s book The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker (Cambridge University Press). Tendi is an Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Oxford. Permission for reproduction of extracts of the book was granted exclusively to the Zimbabwe Independent by the author. Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker is available in Zimbabwean book stores and Exclusive Books (South Africa).
Herbert Chitepo was assassinated at about 8am. on March 18 1975. A powerful bomb in his Volkswagen Beetle car detonated as he pulled out from his home, 150 Muramba Road, Chilenje Township in Lusaka. ‘The blast threw part of the car onto the roof of his house and uprooted a tree next door.’ Chitepo and one of his bodyguards, Silas Shamiso, died instantly, while the second bodyguard Sadat Kufamadzuba was wounded. Nhongo was in ....

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