President consoles Ndlovu family

ALL is set for the burial of former Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairman Professor Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu at the National Heroes’ Acre today.

President Mnangagwa last night visited the Ndlovu famiy in Belvedere, Harare to pay his condolences.

Cde Ndlovu (83), who was also a Central Committee member collapsed and died on Wednesday last week in South Africa where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer.

President Mnangagwa is expected to give the key note address at today’s burial.

The President was accompanied by, Minister of Defence and War Veterans, Oppah MuchinguriKashiri, Minister of State for National Security Owen Ncube, Home Affairs Minister Cain Mathema, Minister of State for Bulawayo Provincial Affairs Judith Ncube and Zanu-PF secretary for information and publicity ,Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, among other senior government and Zanu-PF officials.

Addressing mourners President Mnangagwa said the country had lost a gallant son who was dedicated and humble, one who worked with unwavering commitment during and after the liberation struggle.

“Taunganidzwa pano nekusiiwa kwataitwa neumwe wedu Cde Ndlovu. (We have been brought here by the death of Cde Ndlovu). I was briefed by the Minister of Home Affairs on what transpired to Cde Ndlovu when he passed on in South Africa.

“Cde Ndlovu once phoned me when he was in Bulawayo informing me that he was not feeling well and that he wanted assistance to go for treatment in South Africa and we made arrangements to assist him. I heard from Cde Khaya Moyo that he was there until he passed on,” he said.

He said Cde Ndlovu was one of the few people who were very educated in Bulawayo during the late 1940s and 50s. “He was one of the few vakaita mbiri kumusha vachifunda. Kune mazita mashomanini akabva ikoko kuma 40s and 50s. Ndiyo yakanga iri mikono yacho. (He was among the few blacks who were educated during the 1940s and 1950s),” President Mnangagwa said.

He chronicled how he first met Cde Ndlovu during the liberation struggle and their subsequent