It was sad when I heard of the death of Hon. Isaak Stanislaus Gorerazvo Mudenge this morning. Hon. Mudenge was the Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education in Zimbabwe.
I first met Minister Mudenge in 2009 when I was the Junior Minister of Transport and Communications at an African Ambassadors to Zimbabwe function at Harare's Rainbow Towers Hotel. I remember it was on Africa Day and we had a brief discussion together with the Dean of the African Ambassadors to Zimbabwe, His Excellency Mwana Nanga Mawampanga.
I then laughed my lungs out at Parliament later on, from the Speaker's Gallery, when his fellow MPs made fun of him for his pronunciation of the word "Sir" in 'Mr Speaker Sir'. The Minister was accused of speaking like a 'cheese boy' (hanzi nemaHonourable MP vainoza!!!).
These are my memories of the late Honourable Minister.
Like most of the early guys who were in governemnt soon after independence, Minister Mudenge was highly educated, having passed through the University of Rhodesia in
Salisbury, the
University of York, England, and the
University of London. He has lectured at Sierra Leone University, Freetown and at the University of Lesotho. Academically, he was indeed an inspiration. He held several ministerial, ambassadorial and permanent secretarial posts in governemnt upto the time of his death.
He will be greatly missed. May his soul rest in peace.
10 October 2012
Musa Kika
