Kazungula Bridge will hit Zimbabwe hard

A 1983 video clip of the late popular American comedian, Richard Pry­or, talking to another great fun­ny man, the late Johnny Carson of the long running “The Tonight Show,” has recently found its way onto the local social media.

In the short clip, Pryor is seen holding a walking stick popularly known as “tsvimbo” in Shona, discuss­ing how he got it during a visit to Zimbabwe for holiday.

The reason why the video has gone viral is because a walking stick has been at the centre of a wrangle over the burial of the late former President Robert Mugabe and some mischievous fellows who want his remains, that were buried at his Zvimba ru­ral home, to be exhumed and interred at the National Heroes Acre in Harare “according to local tradition.”

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