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Dumisani Sibanda

Bongani Ndlovu, Chronicle Correspondent
VETERAN journalist and former Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (Zuj) president, Dumisani Sibanda, who was found dead at his home in Bulawayo on Monday morning, will be buried at Lady Stanley Cemetery tomorrow.

Sibanda, a former Chronicle political editor, Sunday News news editor, Newsday Southern Edition Bureau Chief and Zimbabwe Mail Bulawayo Bureau Chief, suffered a stroke in his sleep at his home in Emakhandeni suburb. He was 44.

Family spokesperson and Sibanda’s aunt, Mrs Sehlaphi Moyo, said: “A service will be held at House Number 70463 Lobengula Extension in Bulawayo at 8:30AM.

“After the service we shall proceed to Lady Stanley Cemetery to bury him. The programme of the day will be out Thursday (today).”

Sibanda, the first and only Zuj president from the southern region, was born in Bulawayo on August 31, 1972 and attended Mtshede Primary in Njube suburb from 1978 to 1985.

Warmly known to his colleagues as Sobohla, he then attended Cyrene Boys High School from Form 1 to Upper Six from 1986 to 1991 before enrolling at the Harare Polytechnic College where he studied journalism.

He is survived by a son.