{"id":33488,"date":"2021-01-25T23:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=33488"},"modified":"2021-01-25T18:54:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T16:54:43","slug":"matiza-zimondi-declared-national-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/matiza-zimondi-declared-national-heroes","title":{"rendered":"Matiza, Zimondi Declared National Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span><b>By Anna Chibamu<\/b> &#8211; LATE Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe prisons commander Paradzai Zimondi have been declared national heroes.<\/p>\n<p>Matiza and Zimondi died from Covid-19 aged 60 and 73 Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Zanu PF national chairperson Oppah Muchinguri relayed to the families the politburo position that the late public citizens have been conferred with the highest honour of the land.<\/p>\n<p>Matiza, who has been described as one of the most hardworking cabinet ministers in President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s government, died while admitted at St Annes Hospital in Harare.<\/p>\n<p>Zimondi, a former prisons boss during the late Robert Mugabe\u2019s tenure, retired late last year after serving the institution for decades.<\/p>\n<p>He also died at a private hospital in the capital.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, late Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Ellen Gwaradzimba was interred at the National Heroes Acre.<\/p>\n<p>A joint burial was held at the national shrine for Gwaradzimba and nationalist Morton Malianga who died on 15 January, 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Malianga, who was 91, was one of the few remaining Second Chimurenga pioneers.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo will be laid to rest at the national heroes acre after he was also accorded national hero status Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo succumbed to Covid-19 last Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. By Anna Chibamu &#8211; LATE Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza and former Zimbabwe prisons commander Paradzai Zimondi have been declared national heroes. Matiza and Zimondi died from Covid-19 aged 60 and 73 Friday. 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