Border Gezi

The Right Honourable
Border Gezi
MP
Minister of Youth Development, Gender and Employment
Assumed office
18 April 2000
President Robert Mugabe
Resident Minister and Governor for Mashonaland Central
In office
1996–2000
President Robert Mugabe
Personal details
Born (1964-12-17)December 17, 1964
Guruve, Rhodesia and Nyasaland
Died April 28, 2001 (aged 36)
Mvuma-Masvingo Highway
Political party Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front
Religion Apostolic - Johanne Masowe
Military service
Nickname(s) Madzibaba
Allegiance Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
Years of service 1977–1980
Rank Mujibha

Border Gezi (December 17, 1964 April 28, 2001) was a Zimbabwean politician. He was a close ally of Robert Mugabe within ZANU-PF and served as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment from 2000 having previously been a provincial governor.

Gezi was brought up in Mvurwi and attended Holy Rosary Secondary School. He first worked as an accounts clerk for the Zimbabwe Electricity Supply Authority before being elected to the Zimbabwe House of Assembly for Muzarabani in the 1990 elections. In 1993 he was elected as ZANU-PF chairman for Mashonaland Central, and the government appointed him Provincial Governor from 1996.

At the 2000 parliamentary election, Gezi was in charge of recruiting and organising groups of young ZANU-PF supporters into a militia. The militia groups he led were implicated in violent attacks on supporters of the Movement for Democratic Change, and in invasions of white-owned farms. At a special ZANU-PF congress later that year, Gezi was appointed Secretary for the Commissariat, with responsibility for organizing Robert Mugabe's re-election as President two years later.

Gezi won the Bindura seat at the 2000 election and was appointed as Minister for Gender, Youth and Employment. He was identified as a close ally of Robert Mugabe who had the potential to hold high office in the future. However, he was killed when his car skidded off the Harare-Masvingo road and crashed in April 2001.

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