War veterans from across the country are set to meet next month to take stock of their achievements and challenges since receiving their $50 000 government gratuities in 1997.
Report by Silas Nkala
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans’ Association leader Joseph Chinotimba and former Zipra member Andrew Ndlovu confirmed the development yesterday.
“The meeting will be one of the numerous meetings that we hold as war veterans without discriminating where someone is coming from,” Chinotimba said.
“We have agreed on having the meeting on October 2, but we are yet to secure a venue. The meeting will be strictly the business of the war veterans as one people.”
Ndlovu also said: “I have met Chinotimba and other war veterans’ leaders and we have agreed to come together for the purposes of our welfare though in our respective associations we remain committed. We hope to succeed in enforcing the fulfilment of promises made by the government since independence, which are our gratuities, projects funds, pensions and our children’s school fees catered for by the State.”
In June, the war veterans threatened to picket government offices demanding $18 000, claiming it was part of their 1987 gratuity payment.
