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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has distanced himself from playing a role in awarding his wife Auxilia a gold medal for her charity work and claims that the committee who decided this is chaired by Vice President Constantino Chiwenga.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday morning handed over the doctorate certificate and academic transcript of the late national hero, Joel Biggie Matiza, to his widow Lillian at a ceremony at State House in Harare.
By Sizo Nkala
While death is ordinarily and perhaps universally greeted with sombernes and sorrow, the recent and rapid deaths of the Zanu-PF bigwigs have elicited polarized and starkly contrasting emotions among Zimbabweans. Evidence that even the most sacred of our cultural customs and moral principles are not immune from our divisive politics.
On the one hand are the ruling party members and supporters who are solemnly mourning their fallen leaders. On the other hand are Zanu-PF opponents who seem to be celebrating or at least swearing that they will not mourn the deaths of their oppressors.
The three national heroes – Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo, Transport and Infrastructural Development Minister Dr Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Major-General Paradzai Zimondi – have been buried at the National Heroes Acre this afternoon.
Zimbabwe will tomorrow witness the interment of three national heroes on the same day, the first time this is happening, in what will also highlight the grim times the country is enduring because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Outspoken Norton MP (independent) Temba Mliswa has rebuked President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s administration for conferring national hero status to the late Transport Minister Joel Biggie Matiza who succumbed to the deadly coronavirus disease last week.
The late Transport Minister Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe Prisons and Correctional Services Commissioner General Major-General (Retired) Paradzai Zimondi were yesterday declared national heroes and will be buried at the National Heroes Acre at a date to be announced.
Minister of Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi is currently battling for his life in the ICU of a Harare hospital amid a Covid-19 explosion that has paralysed President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Cabinet.
Transport Minister Joel Biggie Matiza has died from Covid-19, government spokesman Nick Mangwana has confirmed. The Murewa South MP was hospitalised last week and becomes the fourth minister to succumb to the respiratory illness after Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Sibusiso Moyo.
With so many Zimbabweans dying from Covid-19, Nehanda Radio has decided to compile a central list that will be updated daily and paying tribute to those who have lost their lives.