Bikita East legislator and Zanu-PF central committee member, Kennedy Matimba collapsed and died at Makurira Memorial Hospital in Masvingo on Tuesday night after complaining of malaria.
Speaking to NewsDay, Zanu-PF provincial chair, Ezra Chadzamira, yesterday confirmed Makurira’s death saying they had written to the party’s politburo to have him declared a provincial war hero. Said Chadzamira:
It is with a deep sense of loss that I confirm the bad news of the passing on of a colleague, a brother, a friend and fellow legislator and party member. He died at Makurira Memorial Hospital after suffering from malaria. We have since written to the Politburo to have him conferred with a provincial war hero status because of his contribution to the development of Zimbabwe in the pre and post-independence era.
He said burial arrangements will only be announced after the politburo’s ruling on his hero status.
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