…as nation commemorates 43rd Heroes Day
Staff Reporter
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has implored Zimbabweans to remain resolute to the value and ethos of the liberation struggle.
Addressing a gathering during this year’s 43rd National Heroes Day commemorations, where he also presided over the burial of the late national heroes, Ambassador Johannes Tomana and Deputy Commissioner General (Rtd) Milton Siziba, the president bemoaned the passing on of the two.
‘Today a dark cloud of sorrow and grief envelopes the nation as we mourn the passing of the two, and other departed heroes and heroines who never lived to see a free and independent Zimbabwe.
‘Under our mass revolutionary Party, Zanu PF, we remain a Government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Zimbabwe will never ever be run by a puppet Government of our erstwhile oppressors. Never!
‘This was the position that the late national heroes we are interring here today, Cde Tomana and Cde Siziba un-apologetically associated with,’ he said.
President Mnangagwa chronicled the life history of the two and paid tribute to their fight towards democracy and equality. He added that, under Zanu PF democratic practices, constitutionalism, good governance and the rule of law were being entrenched, collolary with what the late Cde Tomana and Cde Siziba instilled.
He further alluded that the demise of the two late national heroes comes at a time when farmers produced an unprecedented 375 131 metric tonnes of wheat in the 2022/23 winter wheat farming season. This was the highest wheat production Zimbabwe has produced since 1962.
Maize output for the 2022/23 summer season also exceeded 2 million metric tonnes. This, coupled with the current expected yields for winter wheat, will usher Zimbabwe as a net exporter of these strategic crops. Similarly, production levels of tobacco are record breaking at 291 million kgs.
Meanwhile President Mnangagwa called on the youth to be bold, daring and innovative by breaking new ground in science, technology and industry.
