Dr Hazel Mubako nee Christie succumbed to cancer at West End hospital on Monday.
Acting President Joice Mujuru yesterday paid her condolences to Justice Mubako at the family’s Glen Lorne residence.

“Losing someone you love is tough and painful but we should understand that it is her destiny that was ended by God. Recently we were mourning two heroes,” said Acting President Mujuru.

“It is painful also to lose a friend and doctor. We share your grief in this time of mourning.”
Justice Mubako said the family lost a pillar and unifier.

“Losing a partner is not a small issue and especially when noting that what was being done by two people is now done by an individual. When death comes, we have no power to change that.

“It is comforting to see friends coming to give us power so that we soldier on. She played her part as a mother and unifier,” he said.
Dr (Hazel) Mubako was born in St Anne County, near Montego Bay, Jamaica on June 19 1947.

A medical doctor by profession, she was educated in St Anne County in Jamaica before going to England in 1965 to study nursing at Dreadnaught Seamen’s Hospital in London. In 1970 she met her husband before they got married and moved to Lusaka in Zambia where her husband lectured law at the University of Zambia.

She attended the same university in preparation for reading medicine and she raised her family while her husband was involved in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. After graduating as a medical doctor in 1980 she spent most of her life practicing medicine in Africa, working mostly with HIV and Aids patients.

Dr Mubako first worked at Harare Hospital after independence before she opened her own surgery and later worked at Parirenyatwa hospital. She will be buried at Glen Forest cemetery on Friday. Mourners are gathered at number 1 Powland Drive in Glen Lorne. She is survived by her husband, four children — Takawira, Revai, Pfumo and Pepukai.

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