VP Mohadi tours Chitepo, Kaunda houses in Zambia

Africa Moyo in LUSAKA, Zambia

Vice President Kembo Mohadi has started his tour of important national monuments in Zambia.
His first stop was at the house where Zambia’s founding President, the late Dr Kenneth Kaunda, lived with his family.
Chilenje House 394 is in Chilenje, Lusaka.
Dr Kaunda lived at the house from January 1960 to December 1962.
It is from that house that he directed the fight for independence of Northern Rhodesia, now Zambia.
The country attained freedom on October 24, 1964.

The VP was shown the Land Rover Defender that Dr Kaunda used, as well as his bedroom, kitchen, and lounge.
In the lounge, the sofas used by Dr Kaunda are still intact, of course, after minimal rehabilitation.
The wardrobe is still there too and holds a school uniform for one of his sons, who is now a diplomat.
VP Mohadi said he was happy to see that such important history has been preserved so well.
From Dr Kaunda’s house, the VP visited House No 150, Muramba Road, in Lusaka’s Chilenje, where the late veteran nationalist Cde Herbert Chitepo lived.
The former Zanu Chairman was killed on the morning of March 18,1975, after his blue Volkswagen Bettle exploded.
As it exploded, part of the car was thrown onto the roof of the house.
It also uprooted a tree and injured a boy who lived next door.
Cde Chitepo and Silas Shamiso, one of his bodyguards, were killed on the spot while his other bodyguard, Sadat Kufamadzuba, was injured.
Kufamadzuba is understood to be living in Bindura at the moment.
Dr Kaunda set up a ‘Special International Commission on the Assassination of Herbert Chitepo’, chaired by Reuben Kamanga.
The house now has a new owner, who has agreed to sell the house to the Zimbabwean Government.
At the moment, VP Mohadi is now at the Nampundwe Shrine, where about 200 nationalists were killed in November 1978 by Rhodesian forces.
Nampundwe has two mass graves.
Afterwards, the VP will visit Freedom Camp, where over 400 freedom fighters were brutally killed.