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28 Sep 2017 at 09:33hrs | Views
Thousands of people are expected to converge at the National Heroes Acre today to bid farewell to the gallant daughter of the soil, Mai Maria Msika, who contributed immensely to the liberation struggle and championed women emancipation. Mai Msika, widow to national hero and Vice President Joseph Msika, died last Friday at her Highlands home in Harare. She was 89.
Mai Msika married VP Msika, a freedom fighter, despite risks involved, and survived two grenade attacks in 1977. She belonged to a rare breed of women such as the late national heroines Amai Sally Mugabe, Mbuya Maud Muzenda and Mama Mafuyana, who looked after a lot of people after the incarceration of their husbands by the Rhodesian regime.
Born on 17 May in 1928 in Bechuanaland now Botswana, Gogo Msika was the eldest in a family of six. She did her primary education at Tsesebe before heading to Gaborone to do her secondary education at St Joseph Khale Catholic school.Gogo Msika then relocated to Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia and enrolled at Usher Institute in Matabeleland South to train as a nurse.
It is at Usher Institute that the late Maria met her love, the late Joseph Wilfred who was a woodwork teacher at same institute. At the time of their marriage, the late VP had already become active in nationalist politics. Gogo Msika supported her husband despite the risks involved.
Mai Msika married VP Msika, a freedom fighter, despite risks involved, and survived two grenade attacks in 1977. She belonged to a rare breed of women such as the late national heroines Amai Sally Mugabe, Mbuya Maud Muzenda and Mama Mafuyana, who looked after a lot of people after the incarceration of their husbands by the Rhodesian regime.
Born on 17 May in 1928 in Bechuanaland now Botswana, Gogo Msika was the eldest in a family of six. She did her primary education at Tsesebe before heading to Gaborone to do her secondary education at St Joseph Khale Catholic school.Gogo Msika then relocated to Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia and enrolled at Usher Institute in Matabeleland South to train as a nurse.
It is at Usher Institute that the late Maria met her love, the late Joseph Wilfred who was a woodwork teacher at same institute. At the time of their marriage, the late VP had already become active in nationalist politics. Gogo Msika supported her husband despite the risks involved.
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