# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/josiah-zion-gumede
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:02:25.604Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/josiah-zion-gumede"
name: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
slug: "josiah-zion-gumede"
description: "Josiah Zion Gumede was the first and only president of the self-proclaimed, and internationally unrecognised, state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia during 1979, before Rhodesia briefly reverted to British rule until the country's independence as Zimbabwe in 1980."
tagline: "President of Zimbabwe-Rhodesia (1919-1989)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8a/JZGumede.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1919-09-19"
deathDate: "1989-03-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.654288000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Гумеде, Джозиа Зион"
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    title: "يوشيا صهيون جوميد"
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    title: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
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    title: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
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    title: "जोशिया जियोन ग्यूडे"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
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    title: "ジョサイア・グメデ"
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    title: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ny.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosiya_Ziyoni_Gumede"
    title: "Yosiya Ziyoni Gumede"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josiah_Zion_Gumede"
    title: "Josiah Zion Gumede"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump