Biographie de Stella Madzimbamuto
Stella Madzimbamuto (nee Nkolombe) was born in Cape Town's District Six in 1930. She attended St. Phillips Primary School and Trafalgar High School, before enrolling for nursing at McCord Hospital in Durban. She met, and later married her husband Daniel Madzimbamuto, who came from the then Southern Rhodesia. Hoping to settle down and to start a family and their careers, they moved to the then Southern Rhodesia.
No sooner had they arrived in their new homeland, than Daniel got sucked into the politics for the liberation of Zimbabwe. She specialised and worked as a neurosurgical nurse, and later as a night matron at Harare General Hospital. While Daniel Madzimbamuto, one of Zimbabwe's longest serving political detainees was incarcerated in many of Rhodesia's detention camps, Stella played multiple roles as she juggled raising a family, pursuing a demanding career and aiding the liberation struggle.
She returned back to live in Cape Town upon the passing of her husband in the free Zimbabwe.