HARARE – Harare senator and former Harare Central MP Murisi Zwizwai has died.
He was 54.
Friends said Zwizwai, of the Citizens Coalition for Change, complained of flu before his death in a Harare hospital early Saturday.
“He was complaining of flue since Wednesday and got worse on Friday and his wife took him to the hospital around 7PM. He was admitted and sadly passed on around 3AM,” Kuwadzana MP Charlton Hwende said.
Former CCC leader Nelson Chamisa said Zwizwai, a four-term Harare Central MP, was “affable, jocular, generous and jovial.”
“We worked together from the early days of the struggle for change and freedom in Zimbabwe. My prayers are with the family and friends,” he wrote on X.
Sunningdale MP Maureen Kademunga described Zwizwai as “a good man.”
“He was committed to the fight for change in Zimbabwe. Gentle, humble, kind-hearted and full of humour. We will dearly miss him,” she said.
Zwizwai was one of the first MPs of the Movement for Democratic Change elected in a by-election in 2003 before leaving the party in 2022 when the CCC was formed.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s spokesman George Charamba also paid his tributes.
“He was an excellent deputy minister of information under the government of national unity (2009-2013), and during my time at the ministry. We worked very well, even as we belonged to different parties,” Charamba said.
