Ellen Gwaradzimba | |
Birth Date: | 25th December, 1960 |
Death Date: | 15th January, 2021 |
Birth Place: | Gutu District |
Alma Mater: | Nachingwea Military Academy, Tanzania |
Ellen Gwaradzimba (née Munyoro; 25 December 1960 – 15 January 2021) was a Zimbabwean politician.
She served as a member of the Senate of Zimbabwe and as Minister of State for Provincial Affairs for the Province of Manicaland from 2018 until her death in 2021.[1]
Gwaradzimba died on January 15, 2021, a victim of COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe, in a private hospital in Harare.[2] Gwaradzimba was posthumously declared a National Hero by President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Ellen was born in the Gutu district in 1960, She undertook her Primary and Secondary School in Masvingo.[3] She joined the liberation struggle at 16 and joined the Nachingwea Military Academy in Tanzania where she majored in guerrilla.
She died on 15 January 2021 as a result of Covid.[4]