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Having mislaid 10 men along the way, they based up a week later in the Wankie Game Reserve, in the extreme west of the country, near the border with Botswana...

Operation Nickel or the Wankie Campaign or the Wankie Battles was a military operation launched by the Rhodesian Security Forces on 1 August 1967 in response...

Zimbabwe. The battle is commemorated in the Bhundu Boys song Viva Chinhoyi, on the album Pamberi. Operations Pagoda and Yodel Wankie Battles Sibanda, Eliakim...

intelligence and member of the ZIPRA high command John Dube, commander at the Wankie battle Tshinga Dube, head of signals and member of the ZIPRA high command Alfred...

Tanzania, before moving to Zambia in preparation for the Wankie battle. Nqose was part of the Wankie Sipolilo Campaign in 1967, alongside Lennox Lagu, Zola...

would rather fight apartheid than play sport." Hani, in an interview on the Wankie campaign, mentioned that he was a Rhodes University graduate. At the age...

Victoria Falls E.N 485 1937 Geological Natural Western Matabeleland North Wankie 2 Great Zimbabwe Ruins E.N 485 1950 Dry Stone Walls Archaeological Southern...

Salisbury, in December 1941. He then visited the Mazowe Dam, Marandellas, the Wankie Game Reserve and the ruins of Great Zimbabwe. Thinking he should "do something...

Coalbrook mining disaster Coalbrook, South Africa 427 6 June 1972 Wankie coal mine disaster Wankie, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe 422 28 November 1914 Mine explosion caused...

camps in Tanzania and neighbouring countries – with such exceptions as the Wankie Campaign, a momentous military failure. In 1969, Tambo was compelled to...

the futility of engaging the Rhodesian military in the type of pitched battles in which it held an indisputable advantage. ZIPRA's failure to obtain support...

Branch/service Umkhonto we Sizwe Years of service 1963–1994 Rank Political Commissar Commands Umkhonto we Sizwe Battles/wars Wankie-Sipolilo Campaign...

alongside Zimbabwean People’s Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) forces in the Wankie Sipollilo campaign. In 1994 Tshali was integrated into the SANDF where he...

Kwidini represented another part that was combined with the neighbouring Wankie District. Between 1985 and 1990 the district was represented by Amos Mkwananzi...

Dabengwa of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZAPU, ZIPRA) led the Wankie Sipolilo Campaign. The "Luthuli Detachment" comprising ANC and ZAPU guerrillas...

workers for the Southern Rhodesian mines, particularly the coal mines of Wankie. At this time the Company considered the principal economic benefit of Northern...

Africa jointly began an armed struggle in northwestern Rhodesia centered in Wankie. This campaign lasted into 1968, with several hundred ZAPU and South African...

power' in response to civil unrest occurring in Salisbury, Bulawayo and Wankie, and in Northern Rhodesia. By 1961, these duties had extended to internal...

four and a half months. 1 and 4 Indeps were stationed at Victoria Falls or Wankie with 1 Indep moving to Beitbridge in late 1978, 2 Indep at Kariba, 3 Indep...

Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969. June 6, 1972: Wankie coal mine disaster Wankie, Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, 426 fatalities. March 21, 1973: Lofthouse...