By Paul Nyathi | Walking around the streets of Harare there is an obvious confusion on the positioning of the National Flag.
Some premises are hoisting the flag at half-mast while others have taken the flag to the top.
National flags are put at half-mast when the country is going through a mourning period usually following the death of a high profile national figure.
Zimbabwe mourned the passing on of former Minister of Health Doctor Timoth Stamps who was declared a national hero and was interred at a private family ceremony on thursday last week.
Zimbabwean general regulations normally give the nation a mourning period up to the day of burial of the person declared to be mourned for.
Stamps’ private family ceremony may have left Zimbabweans confused if he had been buried yet or not so as to raise the flags high.
A security personnel at the Zimbabwe Open University Building in the CBD told ZimEye.com that he was told to fly the flags half way over a week ago and no one has told him to raise them and so will not change from the directive.
“That was the instruction I was given and I can’t change until I am told to change,” he said.
The confusion on the flag is so bad that even flags at the parliament buildings were not corresponding with those at the government offices across the road.
Efforts to get a comment from the Ministry of Information in Harare were fruitless.
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True, kudos to Zimeye. I’ve also observed this half-raised flag thing since last week. Yesterday, my wife swore that another hero had died after Dr Stamps.
This is brilliant news gathering and reporting. None of the local media has picked this. Since the “coup” days, I have relied on your website for timely, breaking news that is well ahead of local media organisations.Kudos to you guys.There are just so many confusing things in the new dispensation: 1) How long do flags fly at half mast during the mourning of a hero. 2) Our new president accepts a gift of 15 cattle from provincial civil servants, and its okay in the new dispensation? 3) So many couples getting plum government jobs to get paid from my tax $s. 4) Not much media coverage on who are the likely VP candidates and when they are to be appointed. 5) How long does the constitution allow the country to run without a VP or VPs. 6) If our new president becomes incapacitated somehow, or anything happens to him, who takes over- as it is? There is no “last acting president”. 7) Where did the money to build all these mansions we are seeing and reading about come from? Can ZIMRA not do lifestyle audits? What about the Auditor General? 8) Is it not prudent to swop roles for the 2 Moyos recently appointed as foreign affairs minister and CIO boss?