Zimbabwean liberation commander, in Shurugwi, Southern Rhodesia. As leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation Army from 1973 until his guerilla war beat the white minority government into submission, he took a stance, opposing liberation leader Robert Mugabe, that other black political organisations should share governance with Mugabe’s party. Less than a week after he expressed these views at the Zimbabwe Independence talks in London, he died allegedly in an automobile accident that the intelligence agencies of both Cold War rivals –the Soviet Union and the U.S. – agreed was a staged killing by Mugabe.