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By Daniel Nemukuyu The widow of former Herald editor Charles Chikerema is battling to recover 469 head of cattle and other livestock grabbed from her husband’s estate by her now deceased brother-in-law some 18 years ago. After the death of the veteran journalist in 1998, his brother James Chikerema expropriated 469 cattle, 815 goats, 682 […]
Soon after independence in 1980, Zanu PF came up with the criteria to be used to accord hero status to the fallen nationals. The main criterion was one’s “consistent” participation in the national liberation struggle. The other was one’s contribution to the development of the country after independence.
AT the beginning of February 1986, I went to enrol for Lower Six at Founders High School in Bulawayo. The coverage of political events in and around Zimbabwe by the media at that time stay etched in my memory to this day.
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe at the burial of national hero, Zanu PF founder and former minister Enos Nkala, gave a profound narrative of the life history of the man he described as his personal friend.
Enos Mzombi (actually Muzomubi in Ndebele) Nkala will be remembered most as one of the founders of the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu), as a break-away from the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union (Zapu) on August 8 1963.