At about the same time Thandi had left her home in the Bulawayo township of Mzilikazi for the capital, Salisbury, now known as Harare. There she had joined ZANLA – the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union. ZANLA was dominated by Shona-speaking people, but Thandi and her late brother, Emmerson, had both joined the larger of the two liberation parties, rightly realising that ZANU would eventually gain the ascendency. Little did they know that the party they had pledged to die for would oversee the ruin of their homeland.
From her instructors in guerilla training camps in Mozambique and, later, Russia and East Germany, Thandi learned about using explosives for demolitions, codes and ciphers, surveillance and counter-surveillance,
