Kefentse Gabya

Kefentse "Kent" Gabya (born 15 April 1973) is a prominent Southern Africa politician and a presidential candidate for the 5 August elections. Gabya was born in the town of Gwanda, Zimbabwe to his single mother on 15 April 1973, during the Rhodesian period in Zimbabwean history as one of the Shona people. He joined the Zimbabwe National Army in 1993 as a second lieutenant, after attending officers' college for a year.

In 1995, Gabya was promoted to a full captain and eventually became a Colonel by 1998. By this time, he had become a supporter of the "SAC movement", which was extremely secretive at the time. He found out from one of his superiors who was mentioning how then-President Robert Mugabe turned the proposal to join the movement down.

As a prominent member of the Zimbabwean Army, the leaders of the SAC movement were interested in having Gabya within their ranks. They found out of his aspiration to join them from cells they had in the Zimbabwean Armed Forces. In 2001, Gabya officially joined the group as the Deputy Commander of the Southern African Armed Forces, which only hypothetically existed at the time. In June 2012, he stated that he wanted to become involved in the political arena of the SAC should it be successful. Being highly respected, his superiors promoted him ceremonially to General, however removed any official position he held. On 29 July 2012, Gabya gave his name up for the upcoming presidential election.