President Emmerson Mnangagwa has conferred liberation hero status on the late Vice President Simon Muzenda’s late son, Tongai Muzenda.
In a letter to the Chief Secretary in the Office of the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda dated 28 April, ZANU PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu wrote:
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His Excellency, the President and First Secretary of Zanu PF, Cde Dr E.D Mnangagwa has conferred a liberation hero status to the late Cde Tongai Muzenda who died on 26 April 2023 and will be buried at Chingito Farm, Tariro Village, Gutu.
The family can be contacted through our Masvingo Provincial Office. I shall be most grateful if you would make the usual arrangements for his burial and payment of benefits to his family. He is from Masvingo Province.
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Muzenda, who was the Minerals and Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe general manager, was killed in a car crash on Wednesday night.
He was a former Deputy Minister of Labour and Public Service and also served as a Member of Parliament for the Gutu West constituency.
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Mnangagwa Confers Tongai Muzenda With Liberation Hero Status

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has expressed shock over the death of the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) general manager and former Deputy Minister, Tongai Muzenda.
<a href="https://www.zimlive.com/mmcz-boss-tongai-muzenda-killed-in-borrowdale-car-crash-aged-57/">ZimLive</a> reported friends of the late former Gutu West MP as saying he crashed his Toyota Prado into an electricity pole in Borrowdale at about 10 PM on Wednesday.
Muzenda was the son of the late Vice President Simon Muzenda. He was 57.
In his condolence message, Mnangagwa said the MMCZ is all the poorer without the late Muzenda: Reads the statement:
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I learnt with a deep sense of shock, horror and grief of the death last night in a car crash of Cde Tongai Muzenda, son of our late Vice President, Dr Simon Vengai Muzenda. 
A promising and trustworthy young executive, the late Cde Tongai Muzenda had been put in charge of our strategic arm, the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, MMCZ, at which he provided excellent leadership. Today the MMCZ is all the poorer without him.
The late departed served our country in various capacities, including that of a Deputy Minister of Government under the First Republic, and as a Member of Parliament for Gutu West Constituency. 
Before his political career, soon after his University studies, the late Cde Tongai joined the corporate world as a young executive. 
He acquitted himself remarkably well in all these roles, thus upholding the Family tradition of enterprise, public spiritedness and great service to our Nation. 
In that sense, he was a true chip off the old block, and we deeply mourn his untimely demise in such violent circumstances.
Alongside his peers, the late Cde Muzenda helped shape our mining sector, including playing the key role of policy sounding board at a time
when we seek to refashion this sector so it keeps pace with expectations of our Nation, and with emerging global mining trends and standards. He will be sorely missed by all of us in Government, especially by those operating at the level of initiating mining policy.
On behalf of the Party, Zanu PF, Government, our Nation, my Family and on my behalf, I wish to express my deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Muzenda Family, and to the surviving spouse and children on this their saddest loss. 
May they find solace in the outstanding service the late departed rendered to his People and Nation during his short lifetime. We shall always remember his contributions to our Nation.
May his dear soul rest in eternal peace.
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Mnangagwa Mourns The Late Tongai Muzenda

Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) general manager, Tongai Muzenda has died.
He was 57.
Muzenda, who was a son of the late Vice President Simon Muzenda, was involved in a car accident on Wednesday evening.
His death was confirmed by Ministry of Mines and Mining Development Permanent Secretary Pfungwa Kunaka. <a href="https://www.sundaynews.co.zw/mmcz-general-manager-dies/">He said</a>:
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I’m really saddened. The news reached me as a huge shock, Mr. Tongai Muzenda as the GM for MMCZ had become a pillar and cog in our quest for a US$12 billion mining industry.
We last spoke Monday afternoon when he indicated he would arrive in Bulawayo for the Zimbabwe International Trade Fair (ZITF) today (Thursday).
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Muzenda joined the MMCZ in February 2019.
He was a holder of a Master of Business Leadership degree from the University of South Africa and BSc Honours in Economics from the University of Zimbabwe.
Muzenda worked for Anglo American Corporation Services Limited in different managerial capacities as well as Marketing and Commercial Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zimbabwe Alloys Limited.
He served as the Member of Parliament for Gutu West, Masvingo for five years.
Muzenda also served as a Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare for two years.
He leaves behind a wife Constance Muzenda and two children, a boy and a girl.
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