Former student leader dies

FORMER firebrand University of Zimbabwe (UZ) student leader Paul Rumema Chimhosva has died.

Chimhosva is said to have succumbed to cardiac arrest at his South African base on Sunday.

Chimhosva rose to prominence in the early 1990s when, as Students’ Representative Council (SRC) president, he led numerous student demonstrations against President Robert Mugabe’s regime.

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