13/12/2025
Saying Goodbye
|| Biography Flora Tachuana ||
Elder Flora Chipo Tachuana (popularly known as Gogo Tachi) was born in Harare Zimbabwe in 1934. She was named Chipo because she was a special gift from God as she was born alive after her mother had some miscarriages. She was an only child of her parents, Marako (Mark) Kariwo of Nyandoro clan and Rose (Lucy) of Kanyemba, Mangwende clan.
She grew up in Shurugwi, Campdown Gold mine. She went to school in Dadaya Mission in 1953, after which she studied in Lovedale Victoria Training Hospital in Cape Town and completed her general nursing training in 1957. This is where she met her beloved husband Lawrence Stanley Tachuana who was a student at Fort Hare University. They got married in 1958 and God blessed them with four children, Sarah, Hick, Nomsa and Itai. She later went on to do midwifery. After this she worked in Harare Hospital which was then the biggest hospital in Zimbabwe for Africans. She was working in maternity when she met Senior Archbishop Eunor Guti as a student who is now a great woman of God in ZAOGA Forward in Faith Ministries who was travelling with our late father Professor E H Guti to many countries preaching and planting churches. She is now the mother of many nations.
Elder Flora Tachuana was very ill suffering for some time from severe headaches that affected her pregnancies. She became paralysed and could not help herself. Glory to God her cousin sister Mrs Plaxides Muronda met Pastor Lazarus Mukombe from ZAOGA who came and prayed for her on a Wednesday and she accepted Jesus as her Saviour and Lord. On the Friday she got up and walked and on Sunday attended the Big Sunday. Elder Flora’s mother and family and her sister and her family were baptised in water. On the Tuesday she was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Evangelist Mai Rusere came to live at Elder Flora’s house and made her pray for the sick. The house became a church and people started coming and miracles and healings took place. They started praying in houses then renting churches for services led by Teacher Elder Mtetwa. They build the church in Mbare. Elder Flora Tachuana and her family started the church in Chisipite. She was sent to neighbouring locations to do crusades. Many received their miracles. She also went to Mozambique to preach the gospel.
She opened Ruvimbo Poly Clinic in 1990 which treated patients from all surrounding locations. The love of God was demonstrated at the clinic. They started each day with a prayer. Many souls were saved at Ruvimbo Poly Clinic, many were prayed for and received their healing. Some patients did not come for treatment but for prayers for some days. Very ill babies near to death got healed. This clinic was her heartbeat calling from God. The clinic closed in 2008 when Elder Flora Tachuana left for the UK.
Elder Tachuana continued doing God’s work in Great Britain. She was blessed to start a church where she has been living since 2011. She officiated at a burial for a resident in 2015 and was asked on quite a few occasions to give testimonials for residents who had gone to be with the Lord. There was a group at the club she was attending where she prayed for the sick and brought some to God.
She continued in the values and teachings of our father the late Archbishop Ezekeil Guti which she was given when she came to ZAOGA Forward in Faith. She never missed a church service or prayer meeting unless she was sick, she continued to give her tithes and offerings. She was fervent in prayer and in the word of God and held on to Jesus right up until the end. Missions was her passion and she continued to support this ministry. Wherever she went she would be testifying and preaching Jesus. She instilled these values in her children. Two of her children Sarah and Hick studied at AMFCC and Christ for the Nations. Her daughter Nomsa and her husband are Elders in the Church and her daughter Itai is a mighty woman of God who God uses in the area of prophecy.
Elder Flora Tachuana was a true mother in Zion who loved, prayed for and discipled many, whether they were Pastors, Elders, Deacons, saints, family, relatives or people she was meeting. She truly obeyed the commandment of Jesus Christ “Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son and of the Holy Ghost.” Matthew 28:19. She brought love, peace and unity wherever she was.
