Prof Ndlovu body airlifted for Hre burial
meetings at other events. He said they also worked together in Government for a very longtime.
President Mnangagwa reiterated that Cde Ndlovu was a humble and approachable person who abhorred tribalism and regionalism, while championing peace and unity.
He said with his death, both the ruling party and the country at large, had lost a principled and disciplined cadre who was always prepared to sacrifice himself or the greater good of the people.
“He has also always been a member of the party and even if we are to chronicle the history of this country, we will never leave his name since he played THE body of the late national hero and former Cabinet Minister, Professor Callistus Dingiswayo Ndlovu, yesterday arrived in Harare from Bulawayo ahead of burial at the National Heroes’ Acre today.
Prof Ndlovu (83) who was also Zanu-PF’s Bulawayo provincial chairman and Central Committee member, collapsed and died on Wednesday last week in South Africa where he was being treated for pancreatic cancer.
A funeral service was held at the Large City Hall in Bulawayo, where party members, service chiefs, family, friends and Bulawayo residents gathered to pay their last respects to the national hero.
a very critical role and has always been doing that,” President Mnangagwa said.
“Munhu aiva munhu pachake ende aitaura zvaafunga ipapo zviri pamoyo pake. Waiti kana ukamuzevezere chinhu aibva atotaura pfungwa dzake. Kana ukakanganisa aibva ataura ipapo. Nyika ye Zimbabwe yarasikirwa ne gamba. Takafamba naye rwendo rwose urwu. Kana tichiti igamba hazvisi zvokutsvakiridza, raive gamba chairo.
“Ku vana, baba venyu raiva gamba chairo. Vana, kana muchida kuita magamba, mukwidzwa. Asi kana muchida kuitawo magamba, vakuru varipo munorairwa. (He was confident and forthright.
Zanu-PF secretary for administration Dr Obert Mpofu described Prof Ndlovu as an educated, disciplined family man who had an understanding of what true liberation was.
“We’re gathered here in honour of our stalwart, gallant, educated, disciplined hero and a family man. This was our comrade who had a vision of understanding of what true liberation meant. I say so because as early as 1970, he was already in the United States of America and learnt the true meaning of democracy.
“He used this grounding as a political tool to understand what Zimbabwe yearned for, which is socio-economic development,” said Dr Mpofu.
He said Prof Ndlovu became the mantle for discipline and consistent leadership for Bulawayo province. Zimbabwe has lost a real cadre who played a very big role during the liberation struggle and after).”
President Mnanagwa said Cde Ndlovu was a national name, a national figure and that they should emulate all the good work that he did for the country.
“There were some problems in Bulawayo but (Cde) Calisto aisava nebasa kuti mabva mose muri mumota kana wakatadza aingo kurakasha chete.
“Tomorrow (today) we are going to lay him at the National Heroes’ Acre and that’s when we will have the opportunity to inform the nation about the man we will be burying,” President Mnangagwa said.