Terrence Mawawa, Chivhu
Businesspeople here have declared Tuesday February 20 a ‘public holiday’ in honour of the late MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai who died in South Africa last Wednesday.

The former Right Honourable Prime Minister will be buried at his rural home in Buhera tomorrow.

Tsvangirai’ s body has been flown by an army helicopter to Humanikwa Village in Buhera for burial tomorrow.

Businesspeople in the transit town yesterday said they would close their shops tomorrow to join millions of Zimbabweans in mourning the veteran opposition leader and icon of democracy.

“I will travel to Buhera tomorrow to pay homage to the people’ s hero .On Tuesday we will not open our shop for business. However we will resume normal operations on Wednesday,” said a takeaway operator who identified herself as Nancy.

“Tomorrow I will travel to Buhera so I will close my shop,” said a retail trader.

“This is a huge blow to democracy. The people’ s hero will be sadly missed,” said furniture trader by the name Washington.