Witness Pasichigare Magunda Mangwende (15 August 1946 – 26 February 2005) was a Zimbabwean politician who served as head of several government ministries in the Mugabe administration, diplomat, and as provincial governor for Harare.

He also studied in the United Kingdom at the University of Southampton and earned a PhD in international relations from the London School of Economics.

25 White Zimbabwean families had been living on those farms, numbering roughly 150 people including men, women and children.

"[4] Mangwende said that John Major was responsible for most of the coordinated international relief that allowed Zimbabwe to survive the droughts of 1992 while neighboring countries struggled.

In 2004, he was appointed governor of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe, a post he held until his death in February 2005.

[6] Upon his death, he was declared a national hero by the Politburo of Zanu-PF, Zimbabwe's majority party, and buried with military honors.