On this day in 1952, politician Ignatius Morgen Chiminya Chombo was born in the Marondera District of Zimbabwe. Chombo served in the cabinet of Zimbabwe for 15 years under the late president Robert Mugabe. In October 2017, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Economic Development in a cabinet reshuffle and in November, was expelled from the ZANU-PF party by the central committee with together with other prominent Generation 40 politicians following the military take over.
Hilton Cartwright, a Zimbabwean born Australian cricketer was born on this day in 1992. Cartwright was born in Harare and spent most of his childhood in Marondera where his parents owned a farm. He moved to Australia in 2003 after their farm became subject to Zimbabwean government land reform programme.
On this day in 2007, Paul Armstrong Gunda who was a commander of One Brigade in Bulawayo. He died after his car collided with a goods train on the Harare-Marondera highway. He was declared a national hero.