{"id":43477,"date":"2021-07-14T18:36:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/?p=43477"},"modified":"2021-07-14T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:28:07","slug":"zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni","title":{"rendered":"ZNA Mourns Senior Officer Colonel Kahuni"},"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>The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has expressed sadness at the death of Colonel Panganai Kahuni, a liberation warfighter who died in Gweru on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>He was aged 61.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement last night, ZNA director public relations Colonel Alphios Makotore said Colonel Kahuni had since been declared a liberation war hero and was set to be buried at the Midlands Provincial Heroes Acre this Wednesday. Said ZNA:<\/p>\n<p>While in Tanzania, he was selected to do a leadership and instructors course in 1978 after which he was appointed an instructor for the training of the Sasa Maliza group, which was the largest group to be trained as a Zanla special force for deployment.<\/p>\n<p>Col Kahuni\u2019s Chimurenga name was Lion Chadzonga.<\/p>\n<p>He was born in Murehwa, attended Manyika Primary School from 1966 to 1972 before proceeding to Uzumba Secondary School.<\/p>\n<p>He joined the liberation struggle in December 1976 when he crossed the border into Mozambique where he received initial military training at Chimoio.<\/p>\n<p>After training, he was deployed to the front where he was part of the group that launched a successful attack on Ruda Camp in Honde Valley.<\/p>\n<p>He was later deployed to the Zimunya area in Manicaland where he operated for a few months before proceeding to Nachingweya in Tanzania for regular military training in 1977.<\/p>\n<p>He was later deployed to Manica Province where he operated until ceasefire when he moved to Dzapasi Assembly Point in Buhera.<\/p>\n<p><b>More: The Herald<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has expressed sadness at the death of Colonel Panganai Kahuni, a liberation warfighter who died in Gweru on Sunday. He was aged 61. In a statement last night, ZNA director public relations Colonel Alphios Makotore said Colonel Kahuni had since been declared a liberation war hero and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":43476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,5509,19,3692],"class_list":["post-43477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","tag-panganai-kahuni","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-national-army-zna"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ZNA Mourns Senior Officer Colonel Kahuni - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has expressed sadness at the death of Colonel Panganai Kahuni, a liberation warfighter ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZNA Mourns Senior Officer Colonel Kahuni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has expressed sadness at the death of Colonel Panganai Kahuni, a liberation warfighter ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T16:36:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef106add047.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"938\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"535\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"ZNA Mourns Senior Officer Colonel Kahuni\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-14T16:36:52+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\"},\"wordCount\":244,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/07\/img-60ef106add047.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Zimbabwe\",\"Panganai Kahuni\",\"Zimbabwe\",\"Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zna-mourns-senior-officer-colonel-kahuni\",\"name\":\"ZNA Mourns Senior Officer Colonel Kahuni - 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