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His wife, Commissioner Tendai Bare of the Public Service Commission, yesterday said Mr Machirori died of heart attack.
He had previously undergone four intestinal operations.
“He had recovered from the intestinal operations, but developed a kidney problem and later suffered from pulmonary cardiac arrest,” she said.
He was one of the four cadres sent for military training in Egypt at the Cairo Military Academy in 1962.
According to Commissioner Bare, Mr Machirori had always been a fighter for human rights.
“He once confronted the principal at an Anglican school over the privilege of water given to him but not to others. He told the principal that he would drink his own urine and give water to a standard four pupil, one Clifford.
“In his own words, that incident was the last straw that pushed him to serious contemplation about joining the liberation struggle,” a statement from the family read.
Mr Machirori worked in the then Ministry of Mines and later became the general manager of the Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe in 1989.
He was also appointed chairman of the TIMB in 1998, a post he held for 13 years.
He is survived by Commissioner Bare, five children and four great grand children.
Mourners are gathered at 36 Twickenham Drive, Mt Pleasant in Harare. He will be buried today at 2pm at Warren Hills cemetery.
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