Major General Paradzayi Zimhondi succumbs to Covid 19

Former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services (ZPCS) Commissioner-General, Major-General Paradzai Zimondi (Retired) has died.

Zimhondi died last night due to Covid-19-related complications. He was 74.

Speaking to 263 Bulletin ,Mashonaland East Provincial Affairs and Devolution Minister, Aplonia Munzverengwi, confirmed Zimhondi’s death.

“Yes I can confirm that he has died. He died this evening (last night). It’s really sad,” she said.
“We are devastated as Mashonaland East province because in the last four consecutive days, we have lost the GMB manager, the provincial information officer Mukonde who will be buried in Mashonaland West tomorrow (today), former Minister Aeneas Chigwedere then Minister Matiza and now, vaZimondi.

“I am at a loss for words. This is saddening.”

Paradzai Zimhondi’s death comes hard on the heels of those of Manicaland provincial affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba, ministers Sibusiso Moyo, Joel Biggie Matiza, ex-education minister Aeneas Chigwedere and ex-Zanu PF MP Christopher Chigumba who all died in a single week.

General Paradzai  Zimondi retired as ZPCS Comm-Gen in November last year after 22 years of service, which began in 1998 when he was 51

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