National Heroes Acre

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…
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National hero Cde Absolom Sikhosana who died in Bulawayo over the weekend will be buried at the National Heroes Acre today where President Mnangagwa will address mourners.
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By Nathan Chikara The conferment of the National Hero Status has more often than not caused sparks to fly in Zimbabwe’s deeply polarised communities. The divisive multi-million dollar question has always been: Who deserves to be interred…
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An environmental hazard looms as soldiers assigned to provide security services at the National Heroes Acre ‘besieged’ the national shrine cutting down trees to supply firewood vendors in the high density suburb of Warren Park posing an…
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President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday hailed the late Thokozile Mathuthu as an honest politician and unassuming leader. Mnangagwa told mourners gathered for the burial of the former Zanu PF women’s league deputy secretary Mathuthu at…
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Zanu-PF Politburo member and former Matabeleland North Governor Cde Thokozile Angela Mathuthu, who died on Monday at her home in Harare and was declared a national heroine, is expected to be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday. She…
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Succession battles in Zanu PF escalated yesterday as it emerged that the confusion surrounding the burial of the late senior party official Shuvai Mahofa is being caused by the party’s warring two factions with one of the groups not keen on…
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By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | Fresh from an official visit in Madagascar, President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday visited the sons and relatives of the late Cephas Msipa and declared that the former cabinet minister and ruling Zanu PF…
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By Tatenda Dewa | Harare Bureau | There is uncertainty over where the late Cephas Msipa, a former cabinet minister and senior Zanu PF official who had turned critical of his former party, will be buried despite being declared a national…
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By Njabulo Ncube and Andrew Kunambura | Financial Gazette | The weather was unpredictable on Monday, cloudy and chilly in the morning, sunny and hot later in the afternoon; and so were the proceedings inside the National Heroes Acre, the…
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