Joshua Nkomo

thumb|Joshua Nkomo in 1975 Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June 1917 – 1 July 1999) was a Zimbabwean politician and the founder of the Zimbabwe African People's Union. Quotes You don’t give a man the status of a hero. All you can do is recognise it. It is his. Eulogy for Lookout Masuku (1986). Reprinted: https://www.theindependent.co.zw/2014/08/08/nkomos-speech-masuku-burial/ Nkomo’s speech at Masuku burial 8 August 2014 Zimbabwe Independent They are immigrants to this country and if young blacks remain at the stage where they are today they will say "makabva kupi imi? Nyika ndeyedu." [Where did you come from? This country is ours.] But it must be "nyika ndeyedu tese, varungu nevanhu vatema." [The country is ours, both white and blacks] Quoted in The Financial Gazette (28 January 1993), on the need for white people to cooperate under majority rule External links Category:Vice presidents Category:Politicians from Zimbabwe Category:Interior ministers Category:Revolutionaries Category:Catholics from Zimbabwe Category:Prisoners Category:1917 births Category:1999 deaths