Former CIO Officer Maunganidze Gets State-assisted Funeral
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted a State-assisted funeral for Dr Sylvester Maunganidze who died on Sunday.
He was a former Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organisation Divisional Intelligence officer and Ministry of Tourism permanent secretary Dr Sylvester Maunganidze.
At one time, he was also a principal director in the Ministry of Information.
Maunganidze died at a private hospital in Harare.
In a statement on Tuesday, the Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda confirmed the funeral help and sent his condolences to the Maunganidze family. He said:
I received with disbelief and deep sorrow news of the death on Sunday of a long-serving senior civil servant, Dr Bradah Sylvester Maunganidze. Soft-spoken and affable, we remember the late Dr Maunganidze as a scholar, diplomat and bureaucrat who dedicated his working life to serving Government and his country with utmost loyalty, seriousness and professionalism.
Because of his vast skills, Dr Maunganidze served in several capacities and stations within the civil service, in the process rising to the rank of permanent secretary. We shall fondly remember him for the good service he rendered to Government and our society, especially in education, intelligence, information and in diplomacy,” he said.
On behalf of His Excellency the President, Dr E.D Mnangagwa, Office of the President and Cabinet, and indeed on my behalf, I wish to extend my deep and sincere condolences to the Maunganidze family for losing a beloved husband, father and mentor. They are all the poorer with his demise which leaves a deep void in the family.
May they derive solace from the knowledge that we share in their deep grief and irreparable loss. In recognition of his long service to Government, His Excellency the President has granted the late Dr Bradah Sylvester Maunganidze a State-assisted funeral. May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.
Dr Maunganidze started his working life as a school teacher at Razi Secondary School in 1981, a career he advanced until he left the teaching profession as a lecturer in 1990.
He then joined the President’s Department and rose through the ranks to become a divisional intelligence officer, a post he left in 2001 when he was appointed liaison officer for France, a post he held until 2003.
He held many professional and academic qualifications which included BSc, MSc, and doctorate degrees among various certificates.
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