User:Gift Machipisa

LIFE HISTORY OF PHILEMON GARIKAYI MURAMBIWA MACHIPISA

He was born Philemon Murambiwa on 15 March 1930 in Chishawasha Harare. He did his schooling up to standard 6 at St Mary’s (Hunyani) School.

He got employed into a family business and later started his own business during the Colonial era.

POLITICAL LIFE

He is a successful business man and a politician. He is the one of the main funders of ZANU during the the Liberation War and Post Independence.


 * He is one of the funders of the Malta ,Geneva and Lancaster House Conferences and participated as a delegate accompanied by lawyer the late CDE Tarisai Ziyambi.
 * He was a member of the People’s Movement and led a delegation to Mozambique in 1979 to show solidarity and moral support to ZANLA freedom fighters.
 * He was one of the people who actively supplied clothing and food items to freedom fighters in both pre and post independence of Zimbabwe by providing transportation and storage since he was in the transportation business.

He was drafted into a finance committee together with Comrade Didymus Mutasa and facilitated the purchase of over 100 houses  for the then ZANU from 1979 and 1980 which were occupied by key Liberation Leaders. He facilitated the acquisition and provision of the following houses and buildings among others.


 * He together with CDE Didymus Mutasa facilitated the acquisition of number 88 Manica Rd Harare (ZANU PF HQ)
 * He donated his personal building at Machipisa Business Center, Highfields to the then ZANU which was a ZANU PF District Office at Machipisa Highfields, Harare.
 * He facilitated the purchase of  a house which Mark Dube and Mai Tongogara lived when they arrived from Mozambique and facilitated the purchase of house number 130 Enterprise road were the late former Vice President CDE S.V. Muzenda lived when he arrived from Mozambique.
 * He facilitated the purchase of number 27 Conrode Mt Pleasant the house occupied by the late former president CDE R.G. Mugabe and his wife Sally Mugabe and provided his personal vehicles to transport the late former president when he arrived in the country  in December 1979.
 * He provided accommodation to ex-combatants at his Highfields,Marimba and Westwood houses prior to the 1980 elections.
 * He provided accommodation to CDE Morris Nyagumbo at number 15 Mupani Avenue, Marimba Park after which the house was used to store medical supplies from Swedish Government for place like Dzapasi among others.
 * He facilitated the acquisation of the house of the late CDE Edgar Tekere in Acadia Harare.

Mr Machipisa aka Philemon Murambiwa is one of the first members of parliament in the independent Zimbabwe and represented Mashonaland East a constituency which covered areas like Harare Metropolitan,Mbare,Chitungwiza among others just after independence....