BULAWAYO – Highlanders Football Club long time benefactor, true fan and life member, retired colonel Tshinga Dube has been declared a national hero.
Zanu-PF national chairperson, Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, announced the honour to Dube’s family at his residence in Killarney in Bulawayo.
“The country has lost a true patriot and a hero of the liberation struggle. His contributions will forever be etched in the history of our nation,” she said.
Dube, 83, succumbed to kidney failure last night at Mater Dei Hospital in Bulawayo.
The former Makokoba legislator who revealed in his book “Quiet Flows The Zambezi” that he started supporting Bosso in the 1960s, helped the club to acquire a bus from South Africa a few years ago.
Dube was known for assisting the club financially countless times.
He played a pivotal role when the club hired Dutch tactician Erol Akbay back in 2016.
He also bought the club a beerhall in Mzilikazi suburb called Manwele bar for US$18,000 as a revenue stream.
