Timeline: Edgar Tekere's political history

THE HISTORY OF CDE EDGAR ZIVANAI TEKERE

Timeline:
 
1937 - born April 1 in Rusape

1957 - joined African National Congress

1959 - detained February to March

1960 - joined the National Democratic Party (NDP) and was banned from attending public gatherings for three months and from entering Tribal Trust Lands

1961 - became a member of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union

- He was elected Secretary of the Salisbury District Council (ZAPU)
- Founder member of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)

1963 - elected Chairman of ZANU, Mkoba Branch, Gwelo
- Deputy Secretary Youth and Culture

1964 - was detained in May and released in October
- was re-arrested and restricted at Wha Wha Prison Camp in Gwelo
- was detained again at Salisbury Prison, Connemara Prison and Que Que

1965-1974 - was released and became a delegate at the Lancaster House Constitutional Conference on Zimbabwe in London

1977 - elected Secretary-General of Zanu PF at the Chimoio Congress

1979 - September-December - was elected Zanu PF Member of Parliament for Mashonaland Central

1980 - February - became the Minister of Manpower Planning and Development

1988 - defected from Zanu PF and formed the Zimbabwe Unity Movement (ZUM). Cde Tekere lost the election to President Mugabe of Zanu PF.

1994 - retired from active politics

2007 - released his memoir 'A lifetime of struggle' where he attacked the works of various liberation war heroes, demeaning the roles they played in the liberation of Zimbabwe.