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President Robert Mugabe has sent a message of condolence to the Malaba family following the death of Reverend Griffiths Malaba on Tuesday.

In his message, Cde Mugabe said the death of Reverend Malaba is a terrible blow and great loss to the Malaba family, relatives and friends and all of whom, including himself, were privileged to be associated with the late in the course of his life.

Reverend Malaba, who succumbed to renal failure, had endured a long battle with hypertension and diabetes.

“The late Reverend Malaba belonged to the early crop of African scholars who excelled in their education during the colonial days and demonstrated that blacks have the intellectual capacity and acumen which rivalled and even surpassed that of their erstwhile colonisers,” said President Mugabe.

At independence, the late Malaba was appointed one of the first black members of the Public Service Commission and subsequently served as the deputy chair of the Presidential Commission on Education and Training, better known as the Nziramasanga Commission — ZBC.