Today lets see who is behind one of the most inspiring Chimurenga songs Nzira Dzemasoja.
Cde Paul Chigango at the centre, whose Chimurenga name is Cde Sando Muponda composed and first sang the song at Mgagao Base Camp in Tanzania in 1974. He was just 17. They had just finished an orientation session on Chairman Mao Tse Tung’s Red Book, which became the guiding principle during the liberation struggle. He wrote the song based on Chairman Mao’s military doctrine
‘Three Rules of Discipline and Eight Points of Attention'.

1. Today we want to see who Chaminuka was and his role to the people of Zimbabwe.
Chaminuka was an ancestoral spirit medium, mhondoro/svikiro and celebrated prophet of the Shona people of Zimbabwe who manifested through several mediums over generations. 2. The last known Chaminuka hailed from Dungwiza territory of long grass (Chitungwiza), he was recognised as the most powerful spiritual leader of his time. The unassailable messiah-like figure, prince of peace, advocated for peaceful co-existence among the people of now Zimbabwe

It is 1973 in Chiweshe, the ZANLA freedom fighters organised transport to go and fetch arms and ammunition from one of their camps on the summit of the Zambezi escarpment at a place called Uchachacha northwest of St Albert’s Mission. With the arms and ammunition now in Chiweshe, the ZANLA fighters decided to base themselves right in the centre of Chiweshe at a rocky mountain called Gonhi, which is near Nzvimbo Growth Point.
From that mountain they began fighting the war of liberation in Chiweshe.