13 Facts About Edward Dube

Edward Dube was born on 12 May 1962 and has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints since April 2013.

Edward Dube is the first Zimbabwean and the second black African to be a general authority.

Edward Dube was first introduced to the LDS Church when his employer, Leaster Heath, who he worked for as a servant, gave him a copy of the Book of Mormon.

Edward Dube first attended an LDS Church meeting in the Kwekwe Branch in February 1984, where he initially felt uncomfortable, feeling as if he was "in a servant relationship with most of the members of the branch".

Edward Dube then worked for the Church Educational System, eventually serving as a country director for Zimbabwe and in other administrative positions.

Edward Dube oversaw the expansion of seminaries and institutes into Zambia and Malawi.

Edward Dube served as a full-time missionary for the church from 1986 to 1988.

Edward Dube initially served in the church's South Africa Johannesburg Mission, which at the time included Zimbabwe, and then in the newly created Zimbabwe Harare Mission when the mission was split in 1987.

Edward Dube has served in the LDS Church as a branch president, district president and counselor in a mission presidency.

In 1999, Edward Dube became president of the first stake organized in Zimbabwe.

Edward Dube was made an area seventy in 2012 and served for a year prior to becoming a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on 6 April 2013.

Edward Dube was the first Zimbabwean to serve as a mission president.

Edward Dube is the first black African native to serve in that Presidency.