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Bongani Ndlovu, Online Writer
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has challenged the youth to be united, respect each other and love the country as the living and departed Heroes did during the liberation struggle that brought about independence and democracy.
The President said this during his Heroes Day message to the nation.
“I’d wish that you, the younger generation, those of us and my colleagues who’ve gone, know that we were united, we respected each other, we loved our Motherland Zimbabwe.
“I believe that we shall sleep in our graves with peace, if you the younger generation continue to be united and love your country first and foremost. Before you admire skyscrapers in other countries, then we shall sleep forever and ever hatidzoki,” said President Mnangagwa.
Below is President Mnangagwa’s full Heroes Day Message.
“Heroes is a time when we commemorate our colleagues, we have since gone. Who contributed, who sacrificed their lives for the Independence, freedom which we enjoy today. So it is critically important that we continue to remember them, and we’ve put aside this day so that generation after generation, we had to keep this history alive, that we travelled on a journey where our sons and daughters sacrificed for their lives for us to be independent, for us to be free, for us to enjoy democracy.
“So, again, today, the current leadership of this country, we’ll keep this tradition and we’ll pass it on so that we continue to remember the journey we have travelled for us to be independent.
I’d wish that you, the younger generation, those of us and my colleagues who’ve gone, know that we were united, we respected each other, we loved our Motherland Zimbabwe.
“I believe that we shall sleep in our graves with peace, if you the younger generation continue to be united and love your country first and foremost. Before you admire skyscrapers in other countries, then we shall sleep forever and ever hatidzoki.
Bongani Ndlovu