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THE STANDING COMMISSION OF THE RED CROSS AND RED CRESCENT AND ITS MEMBERS

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Hon. Dr. Byron Reuben Hove<br />

1986-1999<br />

Hon. Byron Hove served as a member of the Standing Commission between 1986 and 1999,<br />

serving as its Vice-Chairman from 1995 till 1999. Before joining the Standing Commission,<br />

Mr. Hove was the National Chairman of the Zimbabwe Red Cross Society and also one of its<br />

founding members. Outside the Movement, he served as a Justice Minister in the Rhodesian<br />

Government (later to become Zimbabwe with independence in 1980) along with Hilary<br />

Squires as his Co-Minister. He also worked for the Organization of African Unity, the<br />

precursor to the African Union and at the National Archives of Zimbabwe. He was educated<br />

as a lawyer in the United Kingdom. He received the Henry Dunant medal in 1999. 91 Mr. Hove<br />

was born in 1940 in the Mberengwa District, Zimbabwe and died in on April 10 th 1999 in<br />

Harare. 92<br />

91 Standing Commission<br />

92 https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/soc.culture.zimbabwe/9iR8qUBUsZc<br />

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