Rose Chibambo[ Rose Romathinda Ziba Chibambo]- 8 Sep 1928
The fearless Female Ngoni fighter, who took the War to The Colonial Government.💥💥💥💥
Rose married Edwin Chibambo around 1947, son of the great Ngoni Historian Yesaya Mlonyeni Chibambo.
Yesaya Chibambo was born in 1881 in Mzimba when Mmbelwa I was still ruling.

Yesaya Chibambo was a renowned educated Church Minister in Nyasaland in 1920s who wrote petitions to the British Government for the improvement of native education in Nyasaland.
His son Edwin Chibambo became an educated teacher who married Rose Ziba, a girl from Kafukule around 1947. Edwin Chibambo joined the Nyasaland Transport and then the Civil Service and was later moved to the colonial Capital Zomba.
At the fall of 1950, while in Zomba Rose Chibambo started fighting the colonial government.
She went to the Zomba Welfare Hall where she found a Council of Chiefs meeting the State Secretary.
The State Secretary promised the Chiefs good life when the federation was introduced. Rose Chibambo opposed the Secretary of State and had a big fight with Chief Chikowi who advised her to go home as the issue was being handled by men. 😕
Rose Chibambo defied Chief Chikowi and organised another meeting at the Zomba Welfare for wives of Civil Servants to fight the federation.
Ironically Chief Chikowis wife later joined Rose Chibambo's Women fighting the federation 🙊🙊🙊
There has always been a mix up on who formed the Women's League in Nyasaland ?
Vera Chirwa or Rose Chibambo?
Rose Chibambo formed the very first Women's League of Nyasaland African Congress in 1952 in Zomba.
Rose Chibambo had met the head capitao of Tennets Estate in Thyolo in 1952...Joseph Phambala, who was connected to the Chilembwe Uprising.
Rose Chibambo was interested in the spontaneous demonstrations by women farmers in Thyolo and got linked up to them by Phambala who became the Thyolo Branch organiser of NAC.💥💥💥
Rose organised the first boycott of shops in Nyasaland. She led all the women in Zomba to boycott all the shops that insisted to serve natives through the window in Zomba.🔥
Because of her activities her husband was transfered from Zomba the capital to Blantyre in 1953.🙊🙊🙊
In Blantyre she met James Sangala, Grant Mkandawire and Solomon Hartwell as leaders in Blantyre of Nyasaland African Congress.👏👏👏
The radical Solomon Hartwell grew up in South Africa and only came back to Nyasaland in 1949 and was influenced by South Africa's Marxist populalist ideologies. 👌👌👌
With her links with the ex Chilembwe Estate Capitaos in 1952, Rose Chibambo, Solomon Hartwell and Mkandawire joined forces seeking to organise a John Chilembwe Day in Blantyre.💥💥💥
By 1953 Rose had opened the Blantyre Women's League of NAC.💪💪💪
The fracas that followed the 1953 federation violence resulted in Sangala et al being arrested ... and sent to Zomba🙊🙊
Rose Chibambo and her Women's League hired a bus full of native women from Blantyre to Zomba where they threw stones at authorities to release Sangala and company.💥💥🔥🔥
Some of the native women were arrested and charged with fines.🙊🙊🙊
The Women's League was highly organised that they raised the money that very same day and paid the fines...for the release of their fellow women and returned to Blantyre. 👏👏👏👏
Rose Chibambo had a militaristic approach on her fight for independence. She felt ....she had good company when the Young Turks ... Chipembere, Kanyama and others joined the fight in 1955.💥💥🔥💥💥💥🔥
Rose Chibambo pushed for the young educated Chipembere and Chiume to go the legislature at a NAC meeting. She stressed her point that she did not want a "Yes bwana" to go to the legislature.👌👌👌
She mobilised the women in Nyasaland who were in large numbers than men to vote for Chipembere and Kanyama as MPs in 1956 who could vigorously fight the Colonial Government at the Parliament in Zomba. 👏👏👏
In January 1959, Nyasaland African Congress organised the "Bush Meeting" in Blantyre near Soche to adopt something similar to the Chilembwe Uprising.😨😨
The main agitators for this plan were Chipembere, the Chisiza brothers, Chiume and Rose Chibambo.😨😨😨
Dr Banda attended the first Bush meeting on Saturday but was told not to attend for fear of his arrest. Those who attended the other days had a picture that leaders like the Chisizas and Chipembere wanted the natives to stage another Chilembwe Rebellion.😞
The problem with the Bush Meeting was...most of the natives at the meeting did not have the guts like their compatriots in 1915.🙊🙊🙊
The 1915 Uprising had several meetings before the actual Uprising day and nothing leaked out......the discipline and cohesion of the 1915 comrades was high as compared to the Bush Meeting which suffered a setback when most of their plans were leaked to the govt before they even dispersed.🙊🙊🙊
The leaking out of the information at the bush meeting by traitors directly or indirectly resulted in arrests (the Operation Sunrise of 1959) by the Govt on Nyasaland African Congress Leaders.🙊🙊🙊🙊
In the aftermath of the Bush Meeting ... Ironically it was the native women of Rose Chibambo's Women League who defied the men and staged their "Chilembwe Uprising" in Zomba.💪💪💪
50 of the women were locked in Zomba after stoning Govt offices and vehicles.💥🔥💥💥🔥
Henry Chipembere was angry and laughed at men in Zomba where he went for an emergency rally... 😞
"We have sunk so low that the war that we were supposed to be fighting is now being fought by our brave women.....We should be ashamed that we are standing here ...whilst 50 brave women are behind bars for fighting for freedom. To that end no one is going home til those women are released...."👏👏👏
Chipembere demanded that the women be released and the men who gathered there be arrested instead.💥🔥💥🔥
Rose Chibambo had outdone Chipembere in his own game by having the women fight battles which Chipembere cherished to unleash on the govt.👌👌👌👌
It was no surprising that Rose Chibambo was arrested during the State of Emergency in 1959 though she was pregnant. The colonial govt waited for the day she gave birth in hospital and arrested her together with the newly born. 🙊🙊🙊🙊
She stayed in prison with... Vera Chirwa and Mrs Rubadiri who were released later
...but left Rose there who stayed in Jail for a year with her daughter.🙊🙊🙊🙊
She named her daughter Gadi to reminisce her prison life. 🙊🙊🙊
As Vera Chirwa was released earlier from jail ...Dr Banda suggested that.... with Rose Chibambo still in Prison .... She should reorganise the Women's League which had no leader with the incalceration of Rose.🙊🙊🙊
(That's where now the problem crept in on who formed the Women's League with the newly formed MCP in August 1959).👌👌
Rose Chibambo not only stayed in prison longer like Chipembere et al ...than Dr Banda.... She also actively fought the Colonial govt longer than her Compatriots💥🔥💥🔥
Active fight for independence:
Rose Chibambo 1950 - 1964 = 14 years
Chipembere/ 1955 - 1964= 9 years
Kanyama
Orton Chirwa 1957 - 1964= 7 Years
Dr Banda 1958- 1964= 6 Years
Rose had actively fought longer for Nyasaland than her compatriots.💥🔥💥👏👏
In 1963 Rose Chibambo was appointed a deputy cabinet Minister of Prisons, Welfare and Devt. 👏👏👏👏
She was elected an MP in 1964 and a Parliamentary Secretary to Natural Resources.👏👏👏
In August 1964 Cabinet Crisis, Rose Chibambo and Orton Chirwa were the central figures ....joined by Kanyama Chiume and Augustine Bwanausi.👏👏👏
Dr Banda fired the rebel ministers and others resigned in solidarity. ..Yatuta Chisiza, Willie Chokani and Henry Chipembere.🙊🙊🙊🙊
Rose Chibambo was sent into exile by Dr Banda and people who never fought for Nyasaland but surrounded Dr Banda to feast.🙊🙊🙊
In the pic Rose Chibambo's Women's League in action against the Colonial Government👏👏👏👏
Ladies and gents ...a minute of silence for this fallen selfless fighter .....who suffered longest for the freedom which the plunderers are misusing now.... 🕛🕧🕐🕜🕑🕝🕒