adminat Nhapi homestead near Wedza.
Hundreds of people thronged the Nhapi homestead to pay their last respects to Mrs Nhapi.
Addressing mourners, Amai Mugabe said her aunt was a heroine who excelled as a peasant farmer.
“She was a successful farmer who used to feed a lot of people in this area and each time I came here she always gave me something to carry home,” she said.
“She did not even have a tractor but she was producing a lot of farm produce. She used to make good harvests that sustained her family and other people in the neighbourhood.”
Amai Mugabe urged mourners to love one another saying cruelty does not pay.
“I want to say to you that you should leave a legacy for your children like what my mother here has done,” she said.
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Amai Mugabe said she grew up in a family of Christians and anything bad was alien to her.
“Ini vanaSekuru vangu vakatikudzira muchechi. Hakuna zuva randakambonzwa vachinditi kana wanetswa naVaMugabe chera mudzi uyu ushandise,” she said.
She urged family members to unite and visit one another to avoid incest.
“Ngatifambiranei paukama nekuti unogona kuzonzwa vana vave kunzi vaitisana mimba.
“It is said charity begins at home and we should resemble this at family level,” she said.
Amai Mugabe said the void left by her aunt was irreplaceable.
She urged mourners to follow in her footsteps.
Mrs Nhapi’s husband, Joseph said his wife was a pillar of strength in the family.
He said she taught the family to depend on agriculture as their source of living.
Mrs Nhapi died at the age of 75 after a short illness.
She was born in Chikomba district in 1936.
She attended Sadza Primary and Secondary schools before she got married to Mr Nhapi.
As a farmer she exhibited her produce several times at the Marondera Agricultural show.
She is survived by her husband and five children.
Online Reporter