Zanu-PF Women’s League member dies

Chronicle Reporter
A ZANU-PF Bulawayo Province Women’s League member Cde Pretty Nyathi (54) has died.

The late Cde Nyathi’s son, Mr Peter Sithole, said she died last Friday at the United Bulawayo Hospitals (UBH) where she had been admitted for a day after suffering a stroke.

In a statement, Zanu-PF Provincial chairman Mr Dennis Ndlovu said Cde Nyathi would be buried at the Provincial Heroes acre on Thursday. A church service will be held at her home in Nketa 7 suburb at 8 AM.

In her autobiography, the late Cde Nyathi said she joined the liberation struggle in 1977. “I left the country on August 7, 1977 to join the liberation struggle by the pseudo name Ottilia Mangena. I crossed the border to Botswana via Gobazhangwe and proceeded to Francistown. I flew to Zambia VC camp where I stayed for a month and was moved to the Mkushi training centre where I did my training.”

Cde Nyathi served as a member of the youth wing in 1982 before joining the women’s league in 1985 and had been a member up to the time she died.