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Jason Moyo

Jason 'JZ' Ziyaphapha Moyo was veteran nationalist leader who served during the liberation struggle in Rhodesia. He was born in 1927 and died on 22 January 1977 in a parcel bomb explosion in Zambia. Moyo was trained builder and carpenter who joined the trade union movement in Bulawayo in the 1950s before getting into mainstream politics. He was reburied in Zimbabwe on 11 August 1981 at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.^[1]

Background

Moyo was born in 1927 and was part of the Kalanga Tribe.
He went to Mzingwane High School.

Political career

Moyo then joined the Bulawayo branch of the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress [ANC], and became its chairman. His political activities led to his arrest and detention in 1959.^[2] He held executive posts in the ANC, National Democratic Party (NDP), and Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU). When the parties were banned, Moyo left for Lusaka as a member of ZAPU's external wing to direct the first stages of the armed struggle.^[2]

In 1976, he became the second Vice Pre

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I knew Jason ZIYAPHAPHA MOYO, when I joined the National Democratic Party (NDP) in 1960, after my agricultural course at Tsholotsho Breeding and Experimental Station.

Source: My last days with Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo – The Zimbabwean

Zimbabwe former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko

The relationship between the Party Leadership and it’s Youth was very close and strong. The Youth travelled with various leaders including Jason Moyo, through out the country, where close relationship were established, and developed.

One of the Resolutions of the ZAPU Congress, at the Cold Comfort Farm, in August 1963, under the guise of the People’s Caretaker Council (PCC) was to directly engage the Rhodesian establishment with the arms of war, code named as a Special Affairs programme.

Southern Rhodesian then a British, Colony sent two military units to fight with the Commonwealth armed forces in the Malayan Emergency against the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA) the military arm of Malayan Communist Party.

One of the task of the Rhodesian Military Personnel, who inc

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Jason Ziyapaya Moyo

1957 Chairman, Bulawayo Branch, ANC.
1962 National Treasurer, ZAPU.
1963 Financial Secretary, PCC.
1963 External – Representative, PCC.
1974 Lusaka, Member of External Committee, ANC.
1976 (April) Vice—President i/c External Affairs, ANC (Nkomo).

Jason Moyo was born about 1927 near Plumtree, on the order with Botswana. He was a member of the Kalanga tribe¹ After obtaining his primary education at Mzingwane Government School he trained as a builder and carpenter.

He became interested in trade unionism in Bulawayo in the early 1950s and became General Secretary of the African Artisans’ Union. He joined the Bulawayo Branch of the old ANCongress and became successively its Secretary and its Chairman.

He was arrested on 26 February 1959 and detained for three months. In May he was further detained under the new Preventive Detention Act. He was released from Marandellas (Marondera) Prison in 1960. Moyo was elected a member of the National Executive of the NDP at its congress in November. When the NDP was banned in December 1961 he joined ZAPU and