President mourns Murahwa, Mpofu
Sunday Mail Reporter
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday sent condolence messages to the Murahwa and Mpofu families following the death of former Director in the Office of the President Cde Beaven Shungu Murahwa and Member of Parliament for Mberengwa South, Cde Alum Mpofu.
Cde Murahwa succumbed to diabetes yesterday morning, while Cde Mpofu collapsed and died at his home on Sunday last week.
In a statement, President Mnangagwa described Cde Murahwa as one of the bravest freedom fighters during the liberation war.
“The death this morning of Cde Beaven Shungu Murahwa after a long battle against diabetes was a great loss to our nation,” he said.
One of Kenya’s best known government administrators, Mohamed Yusuf Haji, died recently aged 88, still actively engaged in public service as both senator and chairman of a constitution revision team.
Born in Garissa in 1940, Haji was a beneficiary of the pre-independence colonial initiative to identify young talents to fill the shoes of departing British colonial administrators. He joined the administrative service as a District Officer in 1960.
In that year, Britain called the first Lancaster House Conference to determine Kenya’s future. It decreed that ‘natives’ would rule. Officials then intensified recruitment of potential African administrators and bureaucrats.
Simeon Nyachae, another long serving administrator wrote in his autobiography that new recruits were trained to take over Kenya’s administration at independence.
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FORMER deputy finance minister, Morton Malianga has died.
According to state media, he died Friday morning at the age of 90. The cause of his death has not been mentioned.
Malianga joined active politics in 1964 and was appointed Zanu’s first youth secretary.
In 1965, he was arrested and spent 10 years in prison.
While in prison at the Salisbury Maximum Security Prison, Malianga obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree, majoring in economics, business economics and accounting.
After his release from prison in December 1974, he worked with other members of the Zanu Central Committee in mobilisation for the liberation war. He attended the Victoria Falls talks, the Geneva Conference and the Lancaster House Conference in the United Kingdom.
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