Tsholotsho Senator Believe Gaule (MDC) yesterday praised Vice- President John Nkomo, calling him a man who brings people together.
His remarks come in the wake of efforts by Nkomo to build John Landa Nkomo High School which will have a deliberate policy to recruit members of the San community, who previously led a hunter-gatherer type of existence.
The school was commissioned by President Robert Mugabe at a ceremony that was attended by a mosaic of people including political opponents.
In an interview with NewsDay yesterday, Gaule said Nkomo, who is also Zanu PF’s second secretary, had proved to be a “living hero.I have seen that Nkomo is a person that wants to bring people together, he has an outlook on people that disregards their political affiliation,” he said.
“Nkomo is a man that wants to see this nation develop and he is on record as saying that people should work together to make this land a better place for everyone. Such words are words of a great leader who wants to see the best for everyone.”
Gaule said great leaders in Zimbabwe should be honoured while they were still alive.
“Nkomo and other leaders that are great should be respected and honoured while they are still alive,” he said. “Nkomo is a living hero.”
Last month, at the installation of Brilliant Nhlonipho Moyo as Chief Tategulu in Tsholotsho, Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo poked fun at Gaule after he invited him to rejoin Zanu PF to safeguard his political career.
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“There is one who was once a (Zanu PF) district co-ordinating committee chairperson,” said Chombo satirically referring to Gaule.
“We ask him that he returns to the party otherwise the senatorial seat will evade him.”
But Gaule dismissed Chombo’s assertions saying: “He must be joking because I would never do what he is saying. I would never go back to Zanu PF.”
