Dunduzu Chisiza was the youngest and eleventh child of Kaluli Chisiza, a village headman and farmer.
16 Facts About Dunduzu Chisiza
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Dunduzu Chisiza left school in 1949 after failing his Standard VI examination.
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Dunduzu Chisiza went north to Tanganyika, where in 1949 he briefly worked as a clerk in the police records department in Dar es Salaam.
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Dunduzu Chisiza studied for four years at Aggrey Memorial College in Uganda, earning a Cambridge International General Certificate of Education.
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Dunduzu Chisiza briefly returned to Nyasaland, before going to Southern Rhodesia in 1953, where he worked as a clerk interpreter and translator for the Indian High Commission in Salisbury.
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In Salisbury, Dunduzu Chisiza lived in the Matapi Hostel, and joined the Mashonaland branch of the Nyasaland African Congress.
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Dunduzu Chisiza became involved with Rhodesian anticolonial activists like James Chikerema and George Nyandoro, and in 1955, he was one of the founders of Southern Rhodesia African National Congress Youth League.
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Dunduzu Chisiza was deported from Southern Rhodesia in September 1956 to Nyasaland.
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Dunduzu Chisiza was, it is thought, first commended to Banda in a letter from Henry Chipembere, who described him as a young man he would like for his 'extreme views' and as 'a self-made intellectual of no university attainments who surprised all with his mental powers'.
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Dunduzu Chisiza was arrested, along with other high-profile African dissidents, in the dawn raids of Operation Sunrise on 3 March 1959, when the colonial administration, responding to incidents of rioting in various areas of the country, declared a state of emergency in Nyasaland.
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Dunduzu Chisiza was imprisoned in Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia, in the European wing of the jail together with Banda, Chipembere and his brother Yatuta.
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Dunduzu Chisiza was released, some months after Banda, in September 1960 and in December participated in constitutional talks involving Banda and Orton Chirwa in London.
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The rift was such that, according to some reports, Dunduzu Chisiza resigned or threatened to resign.
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Dunduzu Chisiza himself gave a presentation warning of the dangers of dictatorship in emerging African countries.
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Dunduzu Chisiza died on 3 September 1962, while driving back to Zomba from Blantyre.
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Dunduzu Chisiza's cream-coloured Mercedes was found in a small stream bed beside a bridge at Thondwe, on the road to Zomba.