# Ruth Chinamano > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Chinamano > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Ruth_Chinamano.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chinamano > Source revision: 1345527516 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Zimbabwean politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Ruth Lottie Nomonde Chinamano''' (16 February 1925 in [Cape Town](/source/Cape_Town), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa) – 2 January 2005) was a [ZANU-PF](/source/ZANU-PF) politicianPius Wakatama, [http://www.thezimbabwestandard.com/opinion/15333.html Ruth Chinamano, a true heroine]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, The Standard, 9 January 2005Mercy Pote, [http://www.newsnet.co.zw/index.php?nID=10658 Ruth Chinamano], ZBC News, 11 August 2007 and wife of [Josiah Mushore Chinamano](/source/Josiah_Mushore_Chinamano). == Biography == Born in Cape Town, she studied at the Maria Zell Teacher Training College in [Matatiele](/source/Matatiele) in what was then as [East Griqualand](/source/East_Griqualand). In 1948, she started teaching at Lourdes, a school located at the border between the Cape and Natal. In 1949, while on holiday at [Port Elizabeth](/source/Port_Elizabeth), she met the Zimbabwean nationalist Josiah Chinamano. The two married in 1950 and shortly afterwards they went to Rhodesia, where she taught at Waddilove Institute, near [Marandellas](/source/Marandellas), 60 km east of Salisbury. In 1964 she was detained in [Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp](/source/Gonakudzingwa_Restriction_Camp), near the [Mozambique](/source/Mozambique) border, with her husband and spent the next decade in and out of detention. [Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo](/source/Paul_Tangi_Mhova_Mkondo) was also detained there for sometime as a student youth leader. She and her husband were transferred from Gonakudzingwa to Wha wha prison, outside [Gwelo](/source/Gwelo), where they remained until 1970, when they were released but confined to an 8 km radius restriction before being arrested again, being released again in 1974. She was elected to parliament when Zimbabwe held non-racial elections in 1980. She is buried in the [National Heroes' Acre](/source/National_Heroes'_Acre_(Zimbabwe)), a burial ground for Zimbabwean heroes and heroines which is located about 5 km from [Harare](/source/Harare) and which was designed and built by North Koreans. ==References== {{Reflist}} {{Members of the 3rd Parliament of Zimbabwe}} {{Members of the 1st Parliament of Zimbabwe}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Chinamano, Ruth}} Category:1925 births Category:2005 deaths Category:Politicians from Cape Town Category:Xhosa people Category:Zimbabwean politicians Category:Prisoners and detainees of Rhodesia Category:Xhosa women --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Ruth Chinamano](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chinamano) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Chinamano?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.