Career
Before becoming Defence Minister Mahachi served as Member of Parliament for Makoni West. Mahachi was killed on 26 May 2001 when his Range Rover collided with a small car along the Mutare to Nyanga road. At the time Zimbabweans considered his death suspicious, especially as Mahachi died thirty days after another Member of Parliament, Border Gezi, was killed.
Mahachi was married and had four children at the time of his death.
He was declared a national hero by the Government of Zimbabwe and was buried in the National Heroes Acre in Harare. On 30 July 2009 Mahachi"s predecessor, Enos Nkala, claimed that Mahachi was assassinated at the behest of Robert Mugabe because he opposed the looting of diamonds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
In a statement he said:.
