Early Years
Chitepo was born in Watsomba village in the Inyanga District of Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. His family came from the Manyika clan (Samanyika) of the Shona people. He was educated at St David's Mission School, Bonda, St Augustine's School, Penhalonga and then at Adam's College, Natal, South Africa, where he qualified as a teacher in 1945.
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