Today is Itai Dzamara’s birthday. Dzamara has been missing since 9 March 2015 and is believed to have been abducted after he hand delivered a petition to President Robert Mugabe. Below are five things you probably did not know about Dzamara:
- He was born on August 7, 1979 at AlI Souls Mission in Mutoko. He is married to Sheffra Dzamara and the couple have two children, a son named Nokutenda Dzamara and daughter Nenyasha Dzamara.
- Dzamara wrote a letter to president Mugabe requesting him to retire from office. He hand delivered the letter to the President’s office at Munhumutapa Building in Harare.
- He studied journalism and mass communication at Christian College of Southern Africa in 1999. He also studied business and economic journalism and as of 2014 he was said to be studying Law.
- Itai started the Occupy Africa Unity Square Movement which according to him was a way of communicating dissatisfaction in the country’s leadership particularly president Robert Mugabe.
- On May 30 2016, Dzamara’s brother Patson revealed at a press conference that he had been abducted by military intelligence.