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A Hero’s Death: Herbert Tapfumanei Chitepo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

Extract

When a capitalist exploiter dies, he is usually survived, apart from his heirs, by his cars, banking accounts, businesses, stocks and bonds. The victims of his exploitation do not survive him; they outlive him. Aware that the masses of the world—once beyond his predatory habits, greed and blood-sucking—are anxious to forget him, he leaves behind a will calling for the construction of a huge foundation, library or museum to perpetuate his name, a name which is usually engraved deep into the walls.

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Research Article
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1975 

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References

Page no 4 note * See Theal, George McCall, Records of S. East Africa, Vols. II and III; Abraham, D.P., “Maramuch,” in Journal of African History (1961), and Ransford, Rulers of Rhodesia. Google Scholar

Page no 4 note ** See Ranger, T., Revolt in S. Rhodesia. Google Scholar