Five awarded hero status

BY KUDAKWASHE TAGWIREYI
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national and provincial hero status to five people who died last week.

They are Godfrey Chanakira, Francis Kombono Gondo, Charles Savanhu, former Finance minister Christopher Kuruneri and Chief Dennis Nhlamba.

In a statement yesterday, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda said Chanakira was declared a national hero while Gondo, Savanhu, Kuruneri and Nhlamba were accorded with provincial hero statuses.

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