Cephas msipa biography
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Cephas Msipa was born at Shabani on 7 July He was one of 10 children of a peasant farmer who, in order to educate his large family, used to buy chickens.
Cephas Msipa
Zimbabwean politician
Dr. Cephas George Msipa (7 July 1931 – 17 October 2016) was a Zimbabwean teacher, philanthropist and politician who served as the governor of Midlands Province.
Education
Msipa was educated at Siboza School from 1941 to 1943 before going to Dadaya Mission where he was taught by Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole. He left school in 1949 but returned to Dadaya in 1951 to train as a primary school teacher.
Cephas George Msipa, one of Zimbabwe's living pioneer freedom-fighters, will officially launch his book, In Pursuit of Freedom and Justice, in Bulawayo this.Between 1953 and 1954, he studied privately for his Matriculation Exemption Certificate
General career
He taught at schools in Shabani, Kwekwe from 1953 to 1957. He was Headmaster for schools in Harare from 1959 to 1964.
During 1963 he attended the World Teachers' Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In the same year he attended a seminar in Nairobi, Kenya. He was the President of the Rhodesia Teachers' Association from 1961 to 1965. He was dismissed from the teaching profession by the Government in 1964 but was however retained by the Tea
