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Calls to preserve Gonakudzingwa detention camp
19 Mar 2014 at 17:49hrs | Views
Zanu-PF Chiredzi South legislator and Retired Brigadier-General Kalisto Gwanetsa has called on the preservation of the Gonakudzingwa Detention Camp where the likes of late Vice President Joshua Nkomo among other luminaries were detained during the liberation struggle.
"When I talk of Gonarezhou, this is home to Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp. If it was in South Africa, that was going to be the Robben Island," Gwanetsa said.
"It was going to be an attraction centre for tourists. Father Zimbabwe hailed from that part of the country. Msika hailed from that part of the country. John Landa Nkomo was at that place and therefore, if at all that place was going to be upgraded, it was going to be a tourist attraction centre.
"It is only us, who do not recognise our history. We are a people who have got to build on our own history and therefore, structures have to be put in there and it becomes part and parcel of our tourist attraction centres.
"It is part of our heritage and is part of our history."
"When I talk of Gonarezhou, this is home to Gonakudzingwa Restriction Camp. If it was in South Africa, that was going to be the Robben Island," Gwanetsa said.
"It is only us, who do not recognise our history. We are a people who have got to build on our own history and therefore, structures have to be put in there and it becomes part and parcel of our tourist attraction centres.
"It is part of our heritage and is part of our history."
Source - Byo24News
