Chikerema didymus mutasa biography

James Robert Dambaza Chikerema (2 April 1925 – 22 March 2006) served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe.
Mutasa was born in the eastern Zimbabwe town of Rusape in July 1935, the sixth child of a devout Christian couple.
Chikerema was born at Kutama Mission in Zvimba, in present-day Mashonaland West province.

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Whatever Happened to Didymus Mutasa?

Fifty years ago he was a deeply Christian young man and black nationalist working round-the-clock on a multi-racial farm that was famous in liberation circles, and beyond, and hated by Rhodesia's white minority government.

He became a living legend among liberal Christians by helping to make Cold Comfort Farm into a first class agricultural training ground and a psychological liberation centre that was an early staging post on the long march from colonial oppression in Rhodesia to majority rule in Zimbabwe.

“A man of high integrity and Christian character,” said Guy Clutton-Brock, the Welsh-born champion of black freedom who became Zimbabwe’s first and only official white hero when President Robert Mugabe buried his ashes at Harare's Heroes Acre in 1996.

“He never feared to speak his mind and he was always a sensitive leader, a man of vision, an optimist with a profound belief in his fellow man regardless of race, colour, creed.”

The man of whom Clutton-Brock spoke so highly now holds high rank in the government of President Muga

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Name

Function/Reason for listing; Identifying data

Date of designation reffered to in Article 7(2)

1.	Mugabe, Robert Gabriel

President, born 21.2.1924, Passport AD001095. Head of Government and as such responsible for activities that seriously undermine democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law.

21.2.2002

Air Vice-Marshal, Matebeleland South. Directly involved in the terror campaign waged before and during the elections.

24.7.2008

3.	Al Shanfari, Thamer Bin

Former Chairman of Oryx Group and Oryz Natural Resources (see item 22 in part II), born 3.1.1968. Ties to the Government and implicated in activities that seriously undermine democracy, respect for human rights and the rule of law.

27.1.2009

Journalist with Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation, born 19.3.1953, passport BN311374. Whipped up the government-orchestrated terror campaign before and during the 2008 elections.

27.1.2009

Director-General Central Intelligence Organisation, born 6.11.1960, Passport: AD002214 Ties to the Government and com

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James Chikerema

President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe (1925–2006)

James Robert Dambaza Chikerema (2 April 1925 – 22 March 2006) served as the President of the Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe.^[1] 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 Mission in Zvimba, in present-day Mashonaland West province; Robert Mugabe, who was his nephew, shared the same birthplace and the two were very close during childhood. He was educated at St. Francis Xavier College in Kutama, and in South Africa. He became President of the Southern Rhodesia National Youth League and in 1956 led a bus boycott by Africans to protest at their lack of political power (the electoral system in Rhodesia made it very difficult for Africans to be eligible).

With Didymus Mutasa, George Nyandoro, Guy Clutton-Brock, Michael and Eileen Haddon, white liberals who donated their land, he helped create Cold Comfort Farm to improve Afr