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Late Enos Nkala, museum mooted
11 Sep 2014 at 05:49hrs | Views
Zanu PF MPs want the party's late founder member Enos Nkala's house in Harare declared a national museum.
The legislators on Tuesday argued that Nkala's house had the potential to teach the country's youths to "appreciate more of our rich history of the revolution".
Nkala died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare last year at the age of 81 and was declared a national hero.
Contributing to a debate on a motion moved by Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna to push government to protect and take care of grave sites where thousands of war veterans were buried in countries such as Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania, among others, legislators said houses of several politicians should be declared national monuments.
Nduna said in America, the Jefferson and Frankin D Roosevelt memorials were established by the Americans to exalt and extol their liberation war heroes.
"By now, the bullet-riddled former home of His Excellency the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe in Highfield ought to have been a national heritage site as much as the house of Father Zimbabwe (the late Vice-President) Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo in Bulawayo and those of many others," he said.
"The honourable vice-president, the late Simon Muzenda - his house by now should have been a national heritage site in Masvingo.
"Enos Nkala, whose house where Zanu was formed in 1963, should by now have been accorded a national heritage site status."
Zanu PF Makoni South MP, Mandi Chimene, said the process to declare Nkala's house a museum should be fast-tracked," she said
"The house of the late Nkala where Zanu PF was formed should be declared a national museum.
"I am mindful that this is now in the process of being done, but I urge that it be done expeditiously so that it benefits our children, so that they appreciate more of our rich history of the revolution."
Zanu was formed in Nkala's Highfield house in 1963 after breaking away from Zapu.
Nkala left Zanu PF and the government at the height of the Willowgate car scandal in 1988 after he was implicated.
He consistently rejected accusations that he was one of the people behind the Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.
The legislators on Tuesday argued that Nkala's house had the potential to teach the country's youths to "appreciate more of our rich history of the revolution".
Nkala died at the Avenues Clinic in Harare last year at the age of 81 and was declared a national hero.
Contributing to a debate on a motion moved by Chegutu West MP Dexter Nduna to push government to protect and take care of grave sites where thousands of war veterans were buried in countries such as Zambia, Mozambique and Tanzania, among others, legislators said houses of several politicians should be declared national monuments.
Nduna said in America, the Jefferson and Frankin D Roosevelt memorials were established by the Americans to exalt and extol their liberation war heroes.
"By now, the bullet-riddled former home of His Excellency the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe in Highfield ought to have been a national heritage site as much as the house of Father Zimbabwe (the late Vice-President) Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo in Bulawayo and those of many others," he said.
"The honourable vice-president, the late Simon Muzenda - his house by now should have been a national heritage site in Masvingo.
Zanu PF Makoni South MP, Mandi Chimene, said the process to declare Nkala's house a museum should be fast-tracked," she said
"The house of the late Nkala where Zanu PF was formed should be declared a national museum.
"I am mindful that this is now in the process of being done, but I urge that it be done expeditiously so that it benefits our children, so that they appreciate more of our rich history of the revolution."
Zanu was formed in Nkala's Highfield house in 1963 after breaking away from Zapu.
Nkala left Zanu PF and the government at the height of the Willowgate car scandal in 1988 after he was implicated.
He consistently rejected accusations that he was one of the people behind the Gukurahundi genocide in Matabeleland and the Midlands.
Source - Southern Eye
