Events of 2021 in Zimbabwe.

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2021 Timeline of Zimbabwean history

Incumbents

• President: Emmerson Mnangagwa
• Vice President
  • Constantino Chiwenga (1st)
  • Kembo Mohadi (2nd, until 1 March)^[1]

Events

Ongoing: COVID-19 pandemic in Zimbabwe

• 13 January – COVID-19 pandemic: Traditional funerals are banned as infections increase.^[2]
• 19 January – President Mnangagwa says the United States has no standing to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe following the 2021 United States Capitol attack.^[3]
• 24 January – COVID-19: A fourth member of the Cabinet of Zimbabwe dies in two weeks.^[4]
• 27 January – Journalist Hopewell Chin'ono is released on bail after three weeks in prison. Chin’ono accuses Mnangagwa's administration of human rights abuses and corruption; the government accuses Chin’ono of spreading false information and inciting violence.^[5]
• 1 March – Second vice president Kembo Mohadi resigns after allegations of sexual misconduct.^[1]

Scheduled events

Deaths

• 12 January – Lazarus Takawira, 68, sculptor; COVID-19.^[6]
• 15 January – Ellen Gwaradzimba, 60, Minister for Manicaland; COVID-19.^[7]
• 19 January – Stephen Lungu, 78, evangelist; COVID-19.^[8]
• 20 January – Sibusiso Moyo, 61, politician, Ministry of Foreign Affairs; COVID-19.^[9]
• 22 January – Aeneas Chigwedere, 81, politician, Minister of Education (2001–2008) and Governor of Mashonaland East (2008–2013); COVID-19.^[10]
• 22 January – Joel Matiza, 60, politician, Minister for Transport and Infrastructural Development; COVID-19.^[11]
• 22 January – Paradzai Zimondi, 73, former major-general and commissioner-general of Zimbabwe's prisons and corrections services; COVID-19.^[12]
• 25 January – David Katzenstein, 69, international HIV and global health expert based in Harare; COVID-19.^[13]
• 16 February – Soul Jah Love (real name Soul Musaka), 31, Zimdancehall singer; diabetes.^[14]
• 7 March – Janice McLaughlin, 79, Maryknoll sister and human rights campaigner.^[15]
• 25 June – Ahmed Bilal Shah, 67, medical doctor and TV presenter; COVID-19.^[16]
• 7 July – Edzai Chimonyo, 68, commander of the Zimbabwe National Army; cancer.^[17]
• 13 July – Sandra Nyaira, 46, investigative journalist; COVID-19.^[18]
• 14 & 19 July – Helen Lieros, 81, painter, followed by her husband Derek Huggins, 80. Together they founded Harare's Gallery Delta.^[19]
• 29 July – Janet Banana, 83, former First Lady; kidney failure.^[20]
• 6 August – Jane Ngwenya, 86, politician.^[21]
• 7 August – Robert Martin Gumbura, 65, disgraced religious leader and convicted rapist; COVID-19.^[22]
• 11 August – Rejoice Timire, 62, activist and politician, senator; COVID-19.^[23]
• 24 August – George 'Mastermind' Shaya, 72, five-time Soccer Star of the Year.^[24]
• 9 September – Christopher Mapanga, 69, Zimbabwe's ambassador to Iran.^[25]
• 14 November – Simon Khaya-Moyo, 76, former Zanu–PF spokesperson, cabinet minister and ambassador; cancer.^[26]
• 29 November – Douglas Munatsi, 51, CEO of Zimbabwe Investment and Development Agency; carbon monoxide poisoning following house fire.^[27]