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Amos Anthony Mabaso-Mlilo 1933-1995 was a Zimbabwean academic and Humanitarian. He was Vice president of the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society a post he held up until retiring shortly before his death in 1995.He was a highly influential humanitarian and academic offering counsel to some of Zimbabwe leading politicians including "the father of the nation Joshua N Nkomo nationalist leader and later Vice president of Zimbabwe.

Early years
Popularly known as AA(amos anthony), he was born to a peasant farmer in Mloyi lands and a local girl in the Kezi district of Matebeland South. He was cousin of the highly acclaimed Zimbabwean (Ndebele) poet, novelist and essayist Obediah Mlilo (died 1995).The only son of a poor farmer he educated by different missionaries including the Jesuits and later studied externally at University. He worked as an educator and humanitarian till the time of his death in 1998.

The Matabeland Massacres and the role of Aid
Amos was to become a central figure at a time when his region was becoming infamous during the notorious Gukuranhundi, a period when Ndebele uprisings were violently quashed in what was loosely translated in Shona as Gukuranhundi: "the early rain which washes away the chaff before the spring rains"or the Matabeleland Massacres, which ran from 1982 until 1985. Mugabe used his North Korean trained Fifth Brigade to crush any resistance in Matabeleland and subdue Nkomo supporters. It has been estimated that 20,000 Matabele were murdered and buried in mass graves which they were forced to dig themselves and hundreds of others were allegedly tortured. The violence ended after ZANU and ZAPU reached a unity agreement in 1988 that merged the two parties, creating ZANU-PF. He was credited for mobilising efforts of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to mitigate the effects of food insecurity and destitution on the most vulnerable people in particularly at this time when the fifth Brigade burnt and shut wells in an scotched earth policy. subsequent inquiries including the catholic commission for justice inqiury into the massacres obtained information indicated that some beneficiaries not only included the politically affliated but also constituted the chronically ill clients who without the home-based care projects AA helped set up  were fast dying due to inadequate food intake. The initiative to provide food to victims and the chronically ill was partially managed through a Southern Zimbabwe food security operation. The carried over funds were able to meet the procurement of food parcels and the related transportation.

later years
Later after the formation of the Unity government he initiated and sought to deliver 2 critical aspects in the delivery of aid,to promote improvement of nutritional status and encourage self reliance, dignity and community involvement & to more accurately identify the most vulnerable, and to more appropriately help them meet their needs through simple integrated programmes that give people options, promote dignity and encourage self-reliance.He greatest legacy perhaps was promoting the principles and the work of the Red Cross through education.He remained involved with education until the time of his death.