It is not clear when the Zimbabwe office was officially opened as one of PAC foreign
missions. Correspondence from the collection dates back to 1972 but is addressed as coming
from/to the Tanzania office, which was PAC external headquarters. Most of the
correspondence is signed by/to Edwin Makoti as Administrative Secretary.

During the Central Committee (PAC highest decision making body) meeting, which was held
in July 21-26 1983 T M Ntantala, was appointed as Chief Representative of the PAC in
Zimbabwe. As Chief Representative he was answerable to the Tanzania office and his duties
entailed:

- maintaining and strengthening links with the ruling party, government and embassies,

- intensifying communication and establishing links with the home front,

- strengthening administrative machinery of the office to ensure efficiency and stability,
and

- injecting security consciousness amongst members.

From 1984 Edwin Makoti worked from the Zimbabwe office as Secretary for Publicity and
Information, responsible for all PAC publications until he resigned in 1988.He was also
active in the day to day running of the office.

In 1984 Elias Mosaka took over as Chief Representative until 1986 when he was recalled
to Tanzania. He was succeeded in 1986 by Waters Toboti as Zimbabwe Chief Representative.
Waters Toboti is a member of PAC who went to Robben Island in the early sixties. After
that he continued with underground work inside South Africa. During that period he was
detained a number of times until he escaped to Lesotho in 1983. He is one of six PAC
members who were thrown out of Lesotho due to pressure from the South African government,
they subsequently moved to Tanzania where Toboti was deployed to the department of
Publicity and Information.

In 1989 Thobile Gola was appointed as Chief Representative and served until 1992 when
Joyce Sifuba took over the running of the office as Chief Representative until 1994.