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Minister Ncube summons Provincial Development Committee over hero burial boycott
06 Sep 2015 at 09:29hrs | Views
PROVINCIAL MINISTER for Matabeleland South Abednigo Ncube on Monday last week reportedly called a meeting with senior government officials in Gwanda where he accused them of snubbing the burial of a provincial heroine Jane Mandipa who was buried in Ntalale Gwanda South on Friday August 22.
Sources privy to the goings on said the District Administrator Gladys Zizhou, senior provincial army officials, and Provincial Administrator Mirdad Khumalo among other senior government official did not show up at the burial, a development which infuriated Ncube prompting him to call a meeting with them.
Sources said Ncube arrived for the burial at 9am Police's officer commanding the province arrived at 11am while other senior officials did not go.
During the burial Ncube urged Zimbabweans to remain patriotic and resilient saying the economic hardships currently being experienced will soon be resolved.
Ncube told mourners who had come to bid farewell to the liberation heroine that through government programmes, the economic hardships being experienced will be dealt with.
Colleagues in the Ministry of Health and Child Care where Mandipa served for 34 years as a nurse also paid their last respects.
The late Mandipa was born on 19 November 1960 and attended Ntalale Primary School.
She joined the liberation struggle in 1977 at the age of 16 and received military training at Mukushi Training Camp the same year.
In 1979, she was selected to go and train as a nurse in Romania.
Mandipa died on the 18th of August at the Premier Service Hospital in Bulawayo following a kidney failure.
She is survived by nine children and 8 grand children.
Sources privy to the goings on said the District Administrator Gladys Zizhou, senior provincial army officials, and Provincial Administrator Mirdad Khumalo among other senior government official did not show up at the burial, a development which infuriated Ncube prompting him to call a meeting with them.
Sources said Ncube arrived for the burial at 9am Police's officer commanding the province arrived at 11am while other senior officials did not go.
During the burial Ncube urged Zimbabweans to remain patriotic and resilient saying the economic hardships currently being experienced will soon be resolved.
Colleagues in the Ministry of Health and Child Care where Mandipa served for 34 years as a nurse also paid their last respects.
The late Mandipa was born on 19 November 1960 and attended Ntalale Primary School.
She joined the liberation struggle in 1977 at the age of 16 and received military training at Mukushi Training Camp the same year.
In 1979, she was selected to go and train as a nurse in Romania.
Mandipa died on the 18th of August at the Premier Service Hospital in Bulawayo following a kidney failure.
She is survived by nine children and 8 grand children.
Source - Byo24News
