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- ↑ This 1998 Church News article says that Sibanda was the first black member baptized in Zimbabwe, but it also states that he was baptized in 1965, when in fact he was baptized in early 1979. So its accuracy on the matter of Sibanda being the first black person baptized into the Church in Zimbabwe is questionable.