Dauti Salatiel Mabusa (21 March, 1940 – 4 February, 2022)[1] was a Zimbabwean activist and politician, who was born in Gwaranyemba in Gwanda District.
[2] Mabusa was a member of the Southern Rhodesian African National Congress, and later of ZAPU.
[2] He was involved in the ZAPU sabotage campaign of the mid-1960s; was subsequently caught and held in solitary confinement at the Khami Prison, and later at Grey and Wha Wha prisons (Zimbabwe).
[3] Mabusa was released after the Lancaster House Agreement and campaigned for ZAPU in the election preceding independence.
[3] He unsuccessfully contested the constituency of Nkulumane, in the 2008 parliamentary election, as an independent candidate,[4] losing to Tamsanqa Mahlangu of MDC-T. A biography based on him, was published in 2020.