10 Facts About Sabina Mugabe

Sabina Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean politician.

Sabina Mugabe was the younger sister of the former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe.

Sabina Mugabe was born on 14 October 1934 at the Kutama Roman Catholic Mission, which was run by Jesuits of the Rome-based Marist Order, in the Zvimba District 50 miles northwest of Harare, to a Malawian-born father, Gabriel Matibili and a Shona mother, Bona.

Sabina Mugabe left Rhodesia under an assumed name in 1975 and studied home economics and nutrition at Battersea College of Technology and Richmond College in London before going to Nova Scotia, Canada, to study for a diploma in social development at a Catholic college.

Sabina Mugabe served as the Zanu-PF Member of Parliament for Makonde East from 1985 to 1990 and for Zvimba South from 1990 to 2008.

Sabina Mugabe was implicated in the violent confiscation of farms owned by white Zimbabweans in the late 1990s and the early 2000s.

Sabina Mugabe was placed on the United States sanctions list in 2003 and remained on the list until her death.

Sabina Mugabe suffered a stroke in 2007 and retired as an MP in 2008.

Sabina Mugabe died in Harare on 29 July 2010, aged 75, following a long illness.

Sabina Mugabe was survived by her brother Robert and sister Bridgette, her four sons Leo Mugabe, Kevin Mugabe, Patrick and Robert Zhuwao and several grandchildren including Jason Zhuwao.