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Rekayi Tangwena was a traditional chief from
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's eastern province of
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. Chief Tangwena is well known as the man who helped
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and
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cross into
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to join the
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who were waging a fierce bush war against
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n regime.
However, Chief Tangwena was also well known for his fierce resistance to having his people evicted from their ancestral lands to make way for white settlers. Chief Tangwena continued to resist even after the people's homesteads had been destroyed by settler forces.
He is buried at
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in
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