Japhet Ndabeni Ncube
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Japhet Ndabeni Ncube is a Zimbabwean politician. He is also a commissioner at the Zimbabwean Human Rights Commission and chairs the Thematic Working group on Socio-Economic and Cultural Rights.{{Cite web|url=http://www.zhrc.org.zw/team_mf/japhet-ndabeni-ncube|title=Japhet Ndabeni-Ncube – Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission|website=zhrc.org.zw|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-22}}
Early career
Ncube was trained as a primary school teacher in the 1950s and she taught at Njube Primary School from 1960 to 1963.{{Cite news|url=https://search.co.zw/wiki/nyamande-primary-school/|title=Nyamande Primary School – Search Zimbabwe|work=Search Zimbabwe|access-date=2018-09-22|language=en-GB}} He spent the next four years, from 1964 to 1968, in Zambia and Tanzania prior to his leave for his studies in Europe, beginning with a short stay in Germany where he completed his A Level equivalent before moving to the United Kingdom.
Political life
He joined the Liberation Movement in the youth wing of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) and left the country for Zambia later in 1963. He was the mayor of Bulawayo, the second largest city in the country, from 2001 to 2008.{{cite report|url=http://www.zesn.org.zw/publications/publication_52.doc|title=Bulawayo Mayoral and Council By-Elections Report|author=Zimbabwe Election Support Network|date=2001|accessdate=23 November 2013|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203060220/http://www.zesn.org.zw/publications/publication_52.doc|url-status=dead|archivedate=3 December 2013}}{{Cite news|url=https://library.ecc-platform.org/news/zimbabwe-greater-centralisation-threatens-citys-water-supplies|title=ZIMBABWE: Greater centralisation threatens city's water supplies {{!}} ECC Library|date=2015-04-11|work=ECC Library|access-date=2018-09-22|language=en}}{{Cite web|url=https://am.jlk.news/%E1%88%98%E1%88%88%E1%8B%AB/japhet-ndabeni-ncube|title=ወቅታዊ ዜና ስለ ጃፕት ናዲቤኒ ኑኩቡል ~ JLK.NEWS|website=JLK.NEWS|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-22}} He was a member of the MDC, and joined MDC-M during the split in that party. He unsuccessfully contested the Bulawayo Central national assembly seat, losing to the MDC-T candidate, Dorcas Sibanda.{{cite web|url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/z/zimbabwe/zimbabwe20083.txt|title=Legislative Election of 2008, Elections to the House of Assembly|last=Carr|first=Adam}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.sundaynews.co.zw/bcc-ndabeni-ncube-clash-over-25k-debt/|title=BCC, Ndabeni-Ncube clash over $25k debt|website=sundaynews.co.zw|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-22}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.southerneye.co.zw/tag/former-bulawayo-mayor-japhet-ndabeni-ncube/|title=Former Bulawayo mayor Japhet Ndabeni Ncube Archives – Southern Eye|website=southerneye.co.zw|language=en-US|access-date=2018-09-22}}
Personal life
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