1. Ndabaningi Sithole was a Zimbabwean politician and statesman who was the founder of the Zimbabwe African National Union, a militant, nationalist organisation that opposed the government of Rhodesia, in July 1963.
15 Facts About Ndabaningi Sithole
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Ndabaningi Sithole worked as a United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe minister.
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Ndabaningi Sithole spent 10 years in prison after the government banned ZANU.
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Ndabaningi Sithole studied teaching in the United States from 1955 to 1958, and was ordained a Methodist minister in 1958.
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Ndabaningi Sithole was one of the founders and chief architect of Zimbabwe African National Union party in August 1963 in conjunction with Herbert Chitepo, Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere in the Highfields House of Enos Nkala.
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In 1964 there was a party Congress at Gwelo, where Ndabaningi Sithole was elected president and appointed Robert Mugabe to be his secretary general.
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Ndabaningi Sithole spent 10 years in prison after being arrested on 22 June 1964 alongside Mugabe, Tekere, Nyagumbo and Takawira for his political activities.
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Ndabaningi Sithole was convicted on a charge of plotting to assassinate Ian Smith and released from prison in 1974.
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Ndabaningi Sithole eventually founded the moderate ZANU-Ndonga party, which renounced violent struggle, while the Shona-dominated ZANU followed Mugabe with a more militant agenda.
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Ndabaningi Sithole joined Abel Muzorewa's transitional government under the Internal Settlement on 31 July 1979.
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Ndabaningi Sithole was elected to parliament for his tribal stronghold of Chipinge in southeastern Zimbabwe in 1995, and was a candidate in the 1996 presidential election.
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Ndabaningi Sithole was granted the right to appeal, appeal was filed, but the case was never heard by the Supreme Court.
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Ndabaningi Sithole was allowed bail because of his deteriorating health.
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Ndabaningi Sithole died on 12 December 2000, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Ndabaningi Sithole had felt compassion for them, and what he felt was the breach of their human rights; he therefore had invited some of them to stay on the farm.