Dauti Mabusa

Dauti Salatiel Mabusa (21 March 1940 - 4 February 2022) was a Zimbabwean activist and politician, who was born in Gwaranyemba in Gwanda District.

Mabusa was a member of the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress, and later of ZAPU. He was involved in the ZAPU sabotage campaign of the mid-1960s. He was caught and subsequently held in solitary confinement at Khami Prison, and later at Gray and Wha Wha prisons.

Mabusa was released after the Lancaster House Agreement and campaigned for ZAPU in the election preceding independence. He continued to be involved with ZAPU activities, for which he was detained without trial in 1981.

He unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Nkulumane in the 2008 parliamentary election, as an independent candidate, losing to Tamsanqa Mahlangu of MDC-T.

A biography of his life was published in 2020.