Background
Dube was born in Chirumanzu, Zimbabwe to Clement Dube and his wife, Rosemary.
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Edward Dube
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He is the first Zimbabwean and the second black African to be a general authority. He was baptized in August 1984. He initially served in the church"s South Africa Johannesburg Mission, which at the time included Zimbabwe, and then in the newly created Zimbabwe Harare Mission when the mission was split in 1987.
They were later sealed in the Johannesburg South Africa Temple in 1992.
Dube has a diploma in education from the Zimbabwe Doctorate. East. College and studied entrepreneurship at the University of South Africa. Dube then worked for the Church Educational System, eventually serving as a country director for Zimbabwe and in other administrative positions.
He also oversaw the expansion of seminaries and institutes into Zambia and Malawi. In 1999, Dube became president of the first stake organized in Zimbabwe.
From 2009 until 2012, he served as president of the Zimbabwe Harare Mission.
In August 2013, Dube began serving as second counselor in the presidency of the church"s Africa West Area. In October 2013, Dube spoke in general conference. In his talk, titled "Look Ahead and Believe", he reminded Latter-day Saints that "In the sight of the Lord, it is not so much what we have done or where we have been but much more where we are willing to go.".
Membership
He was made an area seventy in 2012 and served for a year prior to becoming a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy on 6 April 2013.
