Hunzvi, Chenjerai

Hunzvi, Chenjerai
▪ 2002
“Hitler” 
      Zimbabwean political activist (b. Oct. 23, 1949, Chikomba district, Southern Rhodesia—d. June 4, 2001, Harare, Zimb.), as chairman (from 1996) of the War Veterans' Association of Zimbabwe, built that formerly small organization into a huge political force; during the last months of his life, he engineered increasingly violent attacks on government opponents as well as the forcible occupation of hundreds of white-owned farms by malcontent Zimbabwean black “veterans.” Hunzvi, who took the nom de guerre Hitler during the guerrilla war against white-minority rule in Rhodesia, pursued medical studies in Poland before returning to his homeland in 1990 to practice medicine. Despite reports that he had never fought in the war, Hunzvi proclaimed himself a lifelong freedom fighter, and his successful demands to Pres. Robert Mugabe on behalf of government-funded veterans' pensions earned him a considerable power base. He was elected to the Zimbabwean parliament in 2000.

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