Joshua Nkomo



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:


 * 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