St Faith's High School, Manicaland, Zimbabwe

st faith's mission was established by anglican missionaries around 1903. from the time it was established, people from the local communities like makoni farm, madzangwe, and madetere villages were employed there. beniah taiseni makoni one of the most prominent inhabitants of the mission farm was employed by the nuns as a cook. beniah was the son of king ndapfunya makoni the son of nyakurukwa. ndapfunya was brother to the late king chingaira makoni, who was beheaded by white settlers in 1896 during the wars by settlers under cecil john rhodes to subdue the local communities under the british south africa company (bsacompany). beniah married edith (edesi) ruwona, the daughter of wilson, a local man of the mbire clan. in 1961, the mission was disbanded to make way for the boys' secondary school. the mission farm was cut into small parcels of land and distributed to the mission workers. smaller parcels of land were distributed free of charge and the bigger farms were sold to some of the m