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RAYMOND JARAVAZA, [email protected]
THE late historian and author Pathisa Nyathi was laid to rest at the Lady Stanley Cemetery in Bulawayo on Wednesday afternoon.
He was 73. He passed away last Saturday after a long illness.
Nyathi was a highly respected author who wrote over 70 publications and was survived by three children – Sikhanyisile, Butholezwe and Fikile.
His wife Elizabeth passed away in 2016.
A funeral service was held at the Bulawayo Amphitheatre and was attended by hundreds of mourners among them Bulawayo Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution Judith Ncube, Bulawayo Mayor Councillor David Coltart, Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Reverend Paul Damasane, traditional chiefs among other dignitaries.
Reverend Damasane said the late Nyathi wrote 20 books that articulated the history of the liberation war against minority rule from the British colonisers, the highest number of publications authored by any writer in Zimbabwe.
The daughter of the late revered nationalist Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo, Mrs Thandiwe Nkomo Ibrahim described Nyathi as a researcher par excellence who played a significant role in researching the history around the Pupu Battle of National Resistance against British colonialism.
When the Joshua Mqabuko Foundation was established in 2004, the late Nyathi was tasked with researching the life of the late Father Zimbabwe.
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