President consoles Kurasha family

died on January 30 and was buried at Warren Hills Cemetery in Harare.
“It is really a visit that should have been undertaken long ago. We did not have time to pay it but now that we have found it, we found it necessary to call on Baba na Mai Kurasha to pay our sympathies over the loss of their mother,” President Mugabe said.
He said Dr Kurasha and her husband Professor Jameson Kurasha have played big roles in the affairs of the country. Prof Kurasha is a renowned educationist and once served in a Commission appointed to run the affairs of Harare when the Elias Mudzuri council was fired.
“We are here also because of these two, these two put together form a great pair, Mai Kurasha at ZOU and Baba Kurasha who is a great man, an educationist with great experience, a great professor, a great teacher and a down to earth man too, very religious and a home boy kwedu kwatinobva kumaKwiro,” he said.
The late Mrs Waungana was born on March 16, 1926 and trained as a teacher at Morgenster Teacher’s College in domestic science.
She taught for over 40 years.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe also expressed sadness at the death of one of Algeria’s and the Organisation of African Unity (now African Union) founding fathers, Mr Ahmed Ben Bella. Mr Ben Bella (95) was Algeria’s first president when it attained independence from France in 1963.
“He was a great man and one of the founding fathers of the OAU and a great revolutionary and liberator of Algeria against French imperialism,” he said.
President Mugabe said Mr Ben Bella agitated for the total liberation of Africa.
“I had the privilege to attend the OAU at its formation and he called on members that time had come for people of Africa to die a little to liberate Southern Africa, in other words sacrifice for our independence,” he said.
Mr Ben Bella died at his Algiers home on Wednesday.