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Born in 1929: Cde Shamuyarira attended Waddilove Institute and qualified as a primary school teacher. Taught at Tegwani School in Plumtree.
1950-53: Teaches animal husbandry in Domboshava before getting a job as cub reporter with African Newspapers Ltd, in 1953 he becomes first black African editor of the Daily News in 1956.
1959-1962: Editor-in-chief of African Newspapers Ltd, but soon leaves journalism after late national hero Dr Samuel Parirenyatwa, asks him to join Zapu.
1962: Appointed lecturer in Adult Education at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland.
1963-69: He and other nationalists break from ZAPU to form ZANU, and in September of the following year, goes to Princeton University in the United States to Study Political Science. Graduates in 1967. Teaches at University of Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where he doubles as ZANU secretary for external affairs.
1970-79: Cde Shamuyarira and Cde James Chikerema engage in deliberations to unify ZANU and ZAPU in Lusaka, Zambia. Resigns lectureship to take up the post of treasurer for the new Front for the Liberation of Zimbabwe in 1971. Disagreements see him leave once again for University of Dar-es-Salam in 1973.
1980-1999: Works in Government as minister of various briefs, including Information, Posts and Telecommunications, and Foreign Affairs.
2000: Leaves Government to concentrate on party work.
2004: Appointed patron of the Palestine Movement.
2006: Establishes the Nathan Shamuyarira Foundation in 2006, to sponsor trainee journalists and other disadvantaged students.
2007: Plays key role in establishment of the local chapter of the African Liberators Heritage Programme.
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