Trust to document liberation history

Herald Reporter
Liberation fighters and other stakeholders have formed a Trust to spearhead research into and preservation of the history of Zimbabwe’s two Chimurengas.
The Memories of Zimbabwe Armed Struggle Trust will start the project by documenting the two phases of the liberation struggle in four parts, spanning from the arrival of the settlers to independence in 1980.
This is in line with a call by President Mugabe at last year’s Zanu-PF National People’s Conference for people to better preserve Zimbabwe’s history.
MOZAST chairperson, Cde Richard Chirongwe, said they did not want the world to continue distorting and erasing Zimbabwe’s history.
Cde Chirongwe, an engineer and the Mazowe West House of Assembly representative (Zanu-PF), said the Trust would host a fundraising dinner tomorrow at Rainbow Towers to kick-start production of the first documentary.
“We invite the business community, Government officials, filmmakers, script-writers, liberation fighters, ex-detainees, war collaborators and all interested Zimbabweans to attend the fundraising dinner,” said Cde Chirongwe. “The Trust will create employment for a lot of our youths and we will soon build a film and training institute. We have already secured land for the complex and we now call on all Zimbabweans to come together to write our country’s true story and preserve it.”
He said the first documentary would be entitled “My Bones Will Rise”, which were the last words uttered by Mbuya Nehanda — who led the First Chimurenga — just before the white settler regime hanged her.
“We will feature the commanders, the mujibhas and even those who fought from Ian Smith’s side,” Cde Chirongwe said.
He said the corporate world was encouraged to get involved in the projects, which would offer them substantial marketing mileage.