The ManicaPost
Tendai Gukutikwa
Post Reporter
COMMUNITIES have been urged to keep working with Government in identifying areas where liberation war heroes who died during the war remain unburied.
Speaking during yesterday’s reburial of 20 liberation war heroes and heroines who were exhumed from across Nyanga District last month, Minister of State for Manicaland Provincial Affairs and Devolution, Honourable Nokuthula Matsikenyere, said it is Government’s wish to give a befitting and decent burial to all lost sons and daughters of Zimbabwe who died during the war.
The liberation war heroes were reburied at Matumba Six shrine in Mutasa District.
She, however, said this can only be made possible if communities work together with Government in identifying areas in which unidentified liberation war heroes were buried in mass and shallow graves.
“The masses participated fully during the liberation struggle and they have the knowledge on who was buried where and how they died. The communities have that history and can help Government in archiving it, but only if we work with them,” she said.
She called for the availing of incentives for exhumers to motivate them in their work of identifying, exhuming and reburying liberation war heroes.
