Edgar Tekere (74), one of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle icons and a founding member of Zanu-PF, died this week after a two-year battle with prostate cancer. His death is certain to be a litmus test ...

Edgar Tekere, one of Zimbabwe’s heroes in the fight for independence, who stopped his former ally President Robert Mugabe from establishing a one party state, died Tuesday. Tekere was widely regarded ...

In his memoirs, A Lifetime of Struggle (2007), Tekere wrote that he accepted his “share of responsibility” for the failure to build democratic institutions in Zimbabwe. But he blamed Mugabe for ...

CONDOLENCE messages continued to pour in yesterday following the death of national hero Cde Edgar Tekere. Zanu-PF Politburo members, the two MDC formations, war veterans and other political parties ...

• Edgar Zivanai Tekere, Zimbabwean liberation war icon. Born: 1 April, 1937, in Nyang'ombe, Rhodesia. Died: 7 June, 2011, in Mutare, Zimbabwe, aged 74. Edgar Tekere, who has died at the age of 74 ...

President Mugabe said Tekere’s death evoked memories of the 'hard and arduous road we walked together, right from the painful days of restrictions, detentions and imprisonment at the hands of racist ...

President Robert Mugabe hated the late national hero Edgar Tekere with a passion, partly because of his book, A Lifetime of Struggle, which ridicules the President, but the reasons go beyond that, ...

Two former leading lights of Zimbabwe’s struggle era can testify to how tough life can be for those who try to chart their own course outside the liberation movement. In 1988, Edgar Tekere was sacked ...

THE readmission of former Zimbabwe Unity Movement (Zum) leader Edgar Tekere to Zanu PF from which he was fired 15 years ago will be a direct challenge to President Robert Mugabe's ego, ruling party ...

Harare - The party of Zimbabwe's president on Sunday buried with full honours a foremost critic it twice expelled from its ranks. Edgar Tekere, a founding member of President Robert Mugabe's party who ...

Family spokesman Steven Kada said theTekere family was happy with the designation of the late freedom fighter as a hero, and that he can now be buried on Sunday at National Heroes Acre in Harare The ...