Josiah Zion Gumede
ABOUT JOSIAH ZION GUMEDE
Politician who was the first president of the internationally unrecognized state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia during 1979.
He studied at the David Livingstone Memorial Mission and Matopo Mission and then in the Cape Province.
He was an ordained elder with the Presbyterian Church of South Africa.
His parents raised him in the Bubi District of Southern Rhodesia.
He and Learnmore Jongwe were both politicians from Zimbabwe.
