Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Museum
The Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Museum is the former late nationalists residence which was converted into a museum.
Background:
Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Museum, is a gallery set up in honour and to tell the story of one of the country’s illustrious liberation war icons, the late former Vice-President Dr Joshua Nkomo.
The museum is situated at house Number 17 Aberdeen Road in Matsheumhlophe, formerly Dr Nkomo’s house.
Dr Nkomo’s residence was converted into a museum and opened to the public at the end of January in 2012.
Description:
Ten rooms of the previous main house make up the museum, including the veranda where the late icon’s navy blue bullet-proof Mercedes Benz, is parked.
Inside the house are portraits, newspaper cuttings, photographs, clothes, tools, kitchen utensils, including all movable household property that belonged to Nkomo and his late wife Johanna “MaFuyana” Nkomo.
Artefacts:
The artefacts on display vividly relay the story of Dr Nkomo’s life as a family man and a liberation war luminary.
- Noteworthy artefacts in the museum include a love letter that Dr Nkomo wrote to MaFuyana on 2 February 1977, telling her that he bought her a car as a present for their 23rd wedding anniversary as a way of expressing his love for her.
- Dr Nkomo’s academic awards and regalia, his library, his rifles that he used during the war and his clothes among other things are also displayed in the museum.
- Also on exhibition in the monument are pictures of Dr Nkomo with the likes of President Mugabe and top Zipra commanders during the liberation struggle.
