Dumiso dabengwa profile

Zimbabwean politician (–)

Dumiso Dabengwa (6 December ^[4] – 23 May ) was a Zimbabwean politician. He served as the head of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) intelligence during the Rhodesian Bush War.^[5]

Political career

During the Rhodesian Bush War the white minority nicknamed him the "Black Russian" because he trained in Moscow, Russia.^[5]

From to , he served in the government as Minister of Home Affairs, and in he was appointed to the chair of the Matabeleland Zambezi Water Project.

From to he was placed on the United States sanctions list.^[6]

Dabengwa ran as a ZANU-PF candidate for a seat in the House of Assembly from Nkulumane in the election, but was defeated by Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) candidate Gibson Sibanda. Dabengwa said that the MDC would have won even if its candidate was a donkey.^[7] He was again defeated in the March parliamentary election.

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