All set for Sithole hero conferment

GOVERNMENT is set to officially confer national hero status on Zanu founder Ndabaningi Sithole today, a year after President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged to honour him posthumously.

Mnangagwa declared liberation struggle veterans’ stalwarts Sithole and James Chikerema and declared them national heroes in August last year.

Sithole, who founded Zanu in 1963, died in 2000 and was buried at his family farm in Mt Selinda, Chipinge.

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