Own Correspondent|Reports just received indicate that paramount Chief of Matabeleland people living in South Africa, Chief Albert Zwelibanzi Gumede, has died.

Highly placed sources around the Mthwakazi kingship told ZimEye.com that Gumede passed on in the early hours of Wednesday morning after a short illness.

Gumede was controversially crowned chief of the Ndebele people living in South Africa on the 22nd of March 2014. He has been part of the chiefs that have been calling for the restoration of the king of the Ndebele people in Zimbabwe.

More to follow on this developing story.