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CDE Stanley Fabian Mutize who died recently and was declared a liberation war hero was yesterday laid to rest at Chinhoyi Provincial Heroes’ Acre.
Cde Mutize whose Chimurenga name was Cde Magwanza, died after a long illness. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1960s in Zambia where he was recruited by nationalist Cde Herbert Chitepo.
In her eulogy speech, Minister of State for Provincial Affairs and Devolution for Mashonaland West Mary Mliswa-Chikoka said Cde
Magwanza was the fountain of wisdom and history of the liberation struggle adding the province and nation was poorer without him.
“He was the integral party of the chronicles of Chimurenga files which Zimbabwean journalists feature now and again.
“Even the Chinese came to Chinhoyi to have interviews with the Cde Mutize because he was one of the few cadres trained by the then chairman Mao,” she said.
He was among the first cadres including President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the late Cde Josiah Magama Tongogara to be sent for guerrilla warfare military training to supportive and friendly countries in Africa and abroad.
He was 79.
Online Reporter