LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database

Foreign Minister · Zimbabwe

Nathan Shamuyarira

1 recorded engagement, 1994: 1 visit.

1Engagements
1Visits
0Phone calls
0Video conferences
0Signed agreements
1Destination countries
1Multilateral summits
1994Years in LEAD

Biography

Zimbabwean nationalist

Nathan Shamuyarira (29 September 1928 – 4 June 2014) was a Zimbabwean nationalist who at different times fought on behalf of and helped lead FROLIZI, ZANU, and ZAPU. He later served as the Information Minister of Zimbabwe and as the Information Secretary of ZANU PF. He was writing President Robert Mugabe's biography at the time of his death.

Nathan Shamuyarira implanted the policy of vetting foreign journalists, renewing their licences every month. This was a way of weeding out government and Zanu PF critics. Very few in the country understood the implications of this policy until opposition politics was effectively silenced.

Musa Shamuyarira, Nathan's brother, was as a student in the United States and member of the MAZAZI Student Union in the 1960s was very close to the CIA affiliated American Society of African Culture and it appears that he attempted to involve Nathan in the organisation as well.

== Pius Ncube ==

In March 2005 he referred to prominent government critic and archbishop Pius Ncube as a

mad, inveterate liar. He has been lying for the past two years. He, however, fits into the scheme of the British and Americans, who are calling for regime change and are feeding him...

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Where they travelled

Zimbabwe   Visited or called (darker = more often)

Most-visited countries

  • United States of America1

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations1
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs1

Every recorded engagement

DateTypeDestinationAgreements
1994-10-11Visit SummitUnited States of America · New York

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22898778 [Nathan Shamuyarira leader profile. Accessed 26 September 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/leaders/nathan-shamuyarira.html]