Josiah Zion Gumede

Politician

Birthday September 19, 1919

Birth Sign Virgo

Birthplace Zimbabwe

DEATH DATE Mar 28, 1989 (69)

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About

Politician who was the first president of the internationally unrecognized state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia during 1979.

Before Fame

He studied at the David Livingstone Memorial Mission and Matopo Mission and then in the Cape Province.

Trivia

He was an ordained elder with the Presbyterian Church of South Africa.

Family Life

His parents raised him in the Bubi District of Southern Rhodesia.

Associated With

He and Learnmore Jongwe were both politicians from Zimbabwe.