Ex Zipra commander and JZ Moyo’s brother dies aged 98

Former Zipra senior commander David Moyo, nicknamed “Sharpshoot”, has died.

Moyo, was the younger brother to former Zapu vice-president Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, died at Mpilo Hospital in Bulawayo on Saturday, aged 98.

Bulawayo Metropolitan Affairs minister Judith Ncube yesterday visited the family home in Emganwini where she described Moyo’s death as a huge loss to Bulawayo province in particular and the nation at large.

“We are at loss as a province and indeed as a nation. We have been sent by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to convey his condolence message to the family.

“We informed him of the death and he immediately sent us here. We remember his good works,” Ncube said.

Former War Veterans minister and liberation war icon Tshinga Dube said he was now a loner following Moyo’s death.

“We were together in the trenches and it’s only the two of us who had been left out of 10 members of the Zipra team that was trained and got deployed the same day in Zambia. I now feel lonely and afraid,” Dube said. Newsday