Exhume Kalangas from Heroes' Acre'

President Robert Mugabe's recent labelling of Kalangas from Matabeleland South province as "uneducated thieves" who allegedly fuelled crime in neighbouring South Africa, has angered some local opposition parties into demanding the immediate exhumation of several national heroes with Kalanga ancestry lying at the National Heroes' Acre and resignation of Cabinet ministers of the same tribe.

The parties yesterday said Mugabe's jibe on Kalangas was not only directed at Zimbabwean xenophobia victims, but national heroes such as the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo, John Landa Nkomo, George Silundika and Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, among others.

However, main opposition MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora said while his party condemned Mugabe's direct attack on Kalanga people, they were against the exhumation of national heroes' remains, but that Mugabe should publicly apologise to the Kalangas.

In separate interviews, both the Welshman Ncube-led MDC and MDC Renewal Team challenged Zanu-PF Cabinet ministers with a Kalanga background like Simon Khaya Moyo to pull out of government in protest.

Khaya Moyo is Zanu-PF national spokesperson and Economic Planning minister. Khaya Moyo is also from Matabeleland South.