JOHANNES BURG, South Africa – Lionel Dyck, a retired Zimbabwe army colonel turned mercenary has died.
He was 80.
Dyck succumbed to cancer in Cape Town on May 30, friends said.
Dyck was a soldier for the Rhodesian army and stayed on after Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980, becoming instrumental in the establishment and training of the 6 Brigade.
He retired from the Zimbabwe military in 1990 and moved to South Africa where he became a private military contractor, specialising in demining, anti-poaching and private security.
He founded the Dyck Advisory Group (DAG), a private military company hired by the Mozambican government to help fight militants in the gas-rich Cabo Delgado province.
