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Vice President John Landa Nkomo's body back in Harare
20 Jan 2013 at 20:05hrs | Views
The body of the late Vice President, Landa John Nkomo has arrived in Harare from Bulawayo.
The body is being accompanied by family members and senior government officials.
Arriving this Sunday evening at the Harare International Airport where it was met by cabinet ministers, government officials, relatives and friends, the body will lie in state at the Vice President's Milton Park home in Harare.
The body also lied in state at the Vice President's rural home in Tsholotsho on Saturday.
A church service was then held this Sunday morning, with scores of people thronging the family home in Tsholotsho to bid farewell to the national hero.
After the service, the people were given time for body viewing.
It was a sad moment as Gogo Madhube, mother to the Vice President bid farewell to her son at the homestead as she is unable to travel to Harare for the burial.
From the homestead, the hearse was driven to Landa John Nkomo High School, the school which was built by Vice President Nkomo and officially commissioned by the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe last year.
Pupils at the school sang songs in appreciation of Nkomo's work to build the school.
The body then departed for Bulawayo where it was taken to his place of residence in Worringham where hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects.
In his remarks, family spokesperson, Mr Sam Sipepa Nkomo extended the family gratitude to the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe for according Vice President Nkomo the highest honour in the land.
He said the family feels humbled by the hero status accorded to Nkomo.
Speaking at the same occasion, Zanu PF National Chairman, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who is leading a team of Politburo members, thanked the people of Bulawayo for their support, saying the huge turnout demonstrates that Vice President Nkomo was a man of the people.
Nkomo will be buried on Monday at the National Heroes Acre
The body is being accompanied by family members and senior government officials.
Arriving this Sunday evening at the Harare International Airport where it was met by cabinet ministers, government officials, relatives and friends, the body will lie in state at the Vice President's Milton Park home in Harare.
The body also lied in state at the Vice President's rural home in Tsholotsho on Saturday.
A church service was then held this Sunday morning, with scores of people thronging the family home in Tsholotsho to bid farewell to the national hero.
After the service, the people were given time for body viewing.
It was a sad moment as Gogo Madhube, mother to the Vice President bid farewell to her son at the homestead as she is unable to travel to Harare for the burial.
From the homestead, the hearse was driven to Landa John Nkomo High School, the school which was built by Vice President Nkomo and officially commissioned by the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe last year.
Pupils at the school sang songs in appreciation of Nkomo's work to build the school.
The body then departed for Bulawayo where it was taken to his place of residence in Worringham where hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects.
In his remarks, family spokesperson, Mr Sam Sipepa Nkomo extended the family gratitude to the Head of State and Government and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Robert Mugabe for according Vice President Nkomo the highest honour in the land.
He said the family feels humbled by the hero status accorded to Nkomo.
Speaking at the same occasion, Zanu PF National Chairman, Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo, who is leading a team of Politburo members, thanked the people of Bulawayo for their support, saying the huge turnout demonstrates that Vice President Nkomo was a man of the people.
Nkomo will be buried on Monday at the National Heroes Acre
Source - TH
