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Happyton Bonyongwe

Military · Politician · Sanctioned entity

Happyton Bonyongwe is subject to sanctions. See the individual program listings below. They are also a politically exposed person.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Happyton Bonyongwe · 哈皮顿·邦扬威 · 해피턴 보뇽궤				[sources]
Other name	Happyton Mabhuya Bonyongwe				[sources]
Weak alias	哈皮頓·邦揚威				[sources]
Birth date	1960-01-11 · 1960-11-06				[sources]
Place of birth	Chikomba District				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Country	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Citizenship	Zimbabwe				[sources]
Classification	National government (past)				[sources]
First name	Happyton				[sources]
Last name	Bonyongwe				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q16193482				[sources]
Position	Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs (2017-2017)				[sources]
Last change	2025-09-03	Last processed	2025-09-09	First seen	2023-04-20

Descriptions

Former Director-General, Central Intelligence Organisation

— Australian Sanctions Consolidated List, 2023-04-20

Zimbabwean spy

— Wikidata non-official source, 2023-07-18

Relationships

Sanctions
Country	Authority	Program	Start date	End date
Australia	Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade		2024-01-12	-

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
Minister of Justice and Legal Affairs	2017-10-09	2017-11-27

Data sources

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons274,103

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

Canadian Consolidated Autonomous Sanctions List5,052

Sanctions imposed by Canada on specific countries, organizations, or individuals under the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and JVCFOA

Canada · Global Affairs Canada

Australian Sanctions Consolidated List4,552

The Consolidated List is a list of all persons and entities who are subject to targeted financial sanctions under Australian sanctions law

Australia · DFAT

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories375,745

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

The record has been enriched with data from the following external databases:

Wikidata349,078

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External dataset · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions547,299

Entity categorisation decisions by the OpenSanctions team.

External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: ca-sema-128-zw-happyton-bonyongwe · ca-sema-172857352ec3bae9ed5fe8a9bfa2adeac18144ba · NK-LZqXfu7QqZAwbHH3EpfKLY · au-dfat-2422-happyton-bonyongwe · ofac-10660 · ca-sema-zimbabwe-n-a-128 · NK-dDE6SMHSVf7wjrgqDvo8vw · ch-seco-6112

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