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Freedom Mupanedemo Midlands Bureau
The body of the late national hero and founding Vice Chancellor of Midlands State University, Professor Ngwabi Bhebe has arrived in Gweru central business district for a church service at the Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe chapel.
After the service, the body will be taken to Midlands State University chapel before being taken to Chiwundura where he intended to be interred before he was declared national hero following his death last Friday.
The body will later be flown to Harare for burial at the National Heroes’ Acre on Saturday.
The late national Hero, Prof Bhebe was born in Mberengwa on August 15, 1942.
He was a distinguished scholar who was the founding Vice Chancellor of the Midlands State University in 2000.
A celebrated historian par excellence, Prof Bhebe’s academic employment dates back to 1974 when he lectured in history at Faurah Bay College in Sierra Leone, and later at the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS) as well as at the University of Zimbabwe in 1982.
He served as Professor of History at the University of Zimbabwe from 1988 to 1999, and also as external examiner at the universities of Botswana, Malawi and Zambia.
Prof Bhebe was researcher of no mean accomplishments as he published extensively and has to his name several books as well as articles in internationally-refereed journals.
Bongani Ndlovu
Online Reporter