Ndabaningi Sithole, Garfield Todd and the Dadaya School Strike of 1947

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Title:	Ndabaningi Sithole, Garfield Todd and the Dadaya School Strike of 1947
Author:	West, Michael O.
Year:	1992
Periodical:	Journal of Southern African Studies
Volume:	18
Issue:	2
Period:	June
Pages:	297-316
Language:	English
Geographic term:	Zimbabwe
Subjects:	student strikes Christian education Politics and Government nationalism
External link:	https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637270
Abstract:	The strike by students at the Dadaya mission school in 1947 was an important background episode to the rise of African nationalism in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe). The two main antagonists in this strike were Ndabaningi Sithole, at that time teacher at Dadaya, and Garfield Todd, the principal of the school. The Dadaya strike was unusual in that it was sparked by grievances other than food and was led by female students. Todd, who had been elected to the Legislative Assembly on the ruling party's ticket the previous year, fired Sithole for his alleged role in 'instigating' the strike and even demanded that the government bar him from teaching. In the years following this incident a political rapprochement took place between Sithole and Todd. By 1961 Todd had joined Sithole as a supporter of African nationalism. Notes, ref., sum.