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ALL eyes were on Chipinge last week on Saturday as the district played host to two momentous occasions that are highly likely to have a huge impact on shaping the outcome of this year’s harmonised elections, which are set for August 23.
Zanu PF launched its national harmonised elections campaign in the ancestral land of the late national hero, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, at Mutema High School in Mutema-Musikavanhu Constituency.
The event was oversubscribed, with thousands of the ruling party’s members and supporters thronging the venue.
For good measure, a musical gala, featuring an array of artistes drawn from across the country, was held as the people danced and sang the night away to celebrate the conferment of national hero status on Reverend Sithole.
Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole died in 2000 and was last year in August declared a national hero posthumously by President Mnangagwa in honour of his legacy.
His memory will linger long, not only among the people of Chipinge, where he hailed from, but the entire nation of Zimbabwe.
He was a true hero and a beacon of peace and unity.
Bestowing national hero status on Reverend Sithole was in recognition of the role he played during the liberation struggle as the founding President of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU).
It is a befitting recognition and honour he duly deserves.
May his soul continue to rest in peace.
Reverend Sithole’s contributions to the country’s independence is worth emulating by all patriotic Zimbabweans.
To that end, President Mnangagwa, in his address to the multitudes of ZANU PF members and supporters that attended the campaign launch, said: “Zimbabwe precedes all of us . . . We are gathered here to assign each of us duties as sons and daughters of Zimbabwe. And the duty is to safeguard our inheritance . . . This is why we must all follow in the footsteps of the revolutionaries that came before us, including the likes of Cde Joshua Nkomo, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, Cde Robert Mugabe, Cde Simon Muzenda and Cde Joseph Msika, among others who I cannot list here.”
The Second Republic, under the astute leadership of President Mnangagwa, must be applauded for setting this precedence in honouring our heroes.
It proves that the President is, indeed, a great unifier and a man who upholds the principles and values of the liberation war that brought Zimbabwe’s independence.
As we gallop towards Vision 2030, the late national hero, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole, must be smiling from his resting place.
While the significance of history has not been lost to the Second Republic as it honours the nation’s founding fathers, it is also taking care of the present through massive infrastructural development as well as building the future of the country as shown by the ongoing economic development.
President Mnangagwa was, therefore, spot on when he said Zanu PF is the only political party in the country that can be trusted with defending the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
This is in the true spirit of leaving no person and no place behind as enunciated by the National Development Strategy (NDS1), with the country continuing to make huge strides towards the attainment of an empowered and prosperous upper-middle income by 2030.
Brick by brick and stone upon stone, Zimbabwe is on the irreversible road to prosperity that national heroes like Reverend Sithole yearned when they waged the liberation war.
Now, Zanu PF marches on to a landslide victory in the forthcoming harmonised elections, with a crushing defeat of the parties and individuals it will be contesting against.
Online Reporter