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Tendai Gukutikwa
Post Reporter
MUTARE’s long serving executive mayor, Alderman Lawrence Dambudzo Mudehwe has been declared a provincial hero and will be buried tomorrow at Manicaland Provincial Heroes’ Acre in Mutare.
The late Alderman Mudehwe passed away on Wednesday after battling a long stomach illness since 2019.
He had received stomach surgery on Saturday last week and failed to recover.
Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services, Min Monica Mutsvangwa delivered the conferment of provincial hero status news to the Mudehwe family this morning. The news was welcomed by the family who described the late Alderman as a true hero and father figure.
As she gave her condolences to the family at the Mudehwe family home in Sakubva Minister Mutsvangwa said the country feels the loss of the departed cadre together with his family.
“The moment the President heard that Alderman Mudehwe had passed on on Wednesday, he declared him a hero even before the requests from provincial party members came. This is because the President knew about his works in Mutare and how much he contributed before and after independence,” she said.
“Our cadre, Alderman Mudehwe has been declared a provincial hero in recognition of his service to Mutare and the country. He was a dedicated son of the soil who had the people and country at heat judging by how he left his beloved job at the height of the war and started assisting liberation war heroes with supplies.
“The void that he left is unfillable but I hope the Mudehwe family will keep his legacy going on. He dedicated his life to the Mutare city because he wanted to see the black child enjoying the developments of his nation,” she said.
Accompanying Min Mutsvangwa were Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa, Deputy Minister for Transport and Infrastructural Development, Hon Mike Madiro and other provincial party.
Speaking on behalf of the Mudehwe family, the late Alderman’s son, Mr Maxwell Mudehwe said his father was a man of the people who loved his country and family.
He said his father will be dearly missed and remembered for his family values and principles.
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