Daniel Madzimbamuto
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Daniel Nyamayaro Madzimbamuto (1929–1999) was a Southern Rhodesian activist who became a Zimbabwean politician and administrator.
Daniel Nyamayaro Madzimbamuto was born in Murehwa, on October 8, either 1929[1] or 1930.[2] This was a rural area north of Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe).[3] He was the son of a Tribal Trust Land farmer, and the eighth child of a family of 10.[2]
He was schooled at the Murehwa Mission until 1948, when he won a scholarship to the Munali Secondary School, in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia), where he studied until 1952.[1][2] After graduation he worked as a broadcaster, publicist, and salesman throughout Rhodesia and South Africa.[1]
Marriage
He met Stella Nkolombe, who would become his wife, in Durban, which he was visiting as a publicity officer for Boswell Wilkie Circus.[3] She was a nurse at Ladysmith Provincial Hospital. They quickly married and moved to Rhodesia. She gave birth to the first of their four children, son Farai (Shona language for "Be happy"), in 1956.[3]