Mapondera RebellionZimbabwe · 1901–1903“The keepers of the atlas wrote this one down so the fire would not forget it.”Kadungure Mapondera had renounced the company's rule formally — a chief resigning from an empire — before the First Chimurenga's embers had fully cooled. From 1901 he raided tax posts and trading stores across the Mazowe valley and over the Mozambique border, a sovereignty of motion where settled sovereignty was lost.