Edward Dube
Edward Dube is a General Authority Seventy and a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In April 2024 general conference, he was sustained as a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, effective August 1, 2024. He is currently serving as President of the Africa South Area Presidency.
Elder Dube was sustained as a General Authority on April 6, 2013. Prior to this calling, he served as an Area Seventy in the Africa Southeast area.
He was born in Zimbabwe. He became a member of the Church of Jesus Christ at age 22. Elder Dube has a degree in education from Zimbabwe D.E. College and also studied entrepreneurship at the University of South Africa. He was employed by the Church Educational System in Africa.
Dube has an extensive background in volunteer church service. He has served as a mission president overseeing all missionaries in the Zimbabwe Harare Mission. In addition, he has served as the branch president (lay pastor) for a congregation and also the president of a stake, which is similar to a diocese.
As a young recent convert, Edward Dube wrote a letter to a church magazine stating that his conversion was the best thing that had ever happened to him and that church membership had given him a better and happier life.
Elder Dube and his wife, Naume Keresia Salizani Dube, are the parents of four children.
