Online Reporter
Freeman Razemba
Senior Reporter
The Zanu PF Heritage Group Trust, which seeks to assist war veterans, their children and the youths through various projects, has said it will continue reburying fallen heroes so that they get decent burials.
According to the Trust, there is an estimated 33 000 fallen heroes who are yet to be reburied 45 years after independence.
The Trust was launched at Zanu PF Headquarters in 2024 with a view to ensuring that the welfare of living comrades and their children is catered for.
It aims to jealously safeguard the country’s legacy and history as well as promoting Zimbabwean culture and tradition and fostering patriotism.
In an interview, Cde Shadreck Chikwanda, who is the national chief research officer for the Trust, confirmed the development.
“The Heritage Group joins in celebrating the history of sacrifice, courage, resistance and resilience of our heroes and heroines to liberate this country,” he said.
“The liberation struggle history is the cornerstone of our collective identity – hence we continue celebrating the legacy it brought about.
“In appreciation of this, the Heritage Group is memorialising and documenting the country’s history and we are also identifying, exhuming, verifying and reburying the fallen heroes and heroines who are still lying in shallow graves within the borders of Zimbabwe and those in foreign lands,” he said.
Cde Chikwanda said so far, they have reburied the remains of 44 fallen heroes in Manicaland and Mashonaland East provinces.
The trust has also identified five mass graves in Chingwizi area in Masvingo and mobilisation of resources is underway to give them decent burials.
