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Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo (19 June – 1 July ) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Vice-President of Zimbabwe from until his death in He founded and led the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) from until it merged in with Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) to form ZANU–PF after an internal military crackdown called Gukurahundi in western Zimbabwe, mostly on ethnic Ndebele ZAPU supporters.

He was a leading trade union leader, who progressed on to become president of the banned National Democratic Party, and was jailed for ten years by Rhodesia's white minority government. After his release in , ZAPU contributed to the fall of that government, along with the splinter rival ZANU, created in ^[1]

In , fearing for his life in the early stages of the Gukurahundi, Nkomo fled the country.

Later in , he controversially signed the Unity Accord allowing ZAPU to merge with ZANU to stop the genocide.^[2]

Nkomo earned many