Paul Nyathi|The city of Bulawayo is relatively quite with no signs that a person declared a national hero passed on in the city.

ZANU PF Bulawayo Province chairman Callistus Ndlovu passed on in South Africa last week and was declared a national hero.

Social Media critics in the city have come hard on the ZANU PF leader accusing him of selling out on the people of the region during the dreadful Gukurahundi atrocities of the mid eighties.

Ndlovu is very notorious in the city and the region for his statement that the Joshua Nkomo led PF ZAPU was a dead donkey at the peak of the Gukurahundi era.

He had unceremoniously dumped PF ZAPU at the time and joined the Gukurahundi attributed ZANU under Robert Mugabe leadership.

Since that time, the people of Matabeleland who supported ZAPU and Nkomo religiously never forgave him for his utterances.

Critics have actually accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa for rewarding Ndlovu on his selling out on the people of the region by giving him a national hero status.

Meanwhile, body of the late national hero Ndlovu who passed away in South Africa arrived in Bulawayo on Tuesday afternoon aboard a South African Airlink jet.

Prof Ndlovu’s body arrived at 12 noon at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo airport and was welcomed by Bulawayo provincial Minister Cde Judith Ncube, Government officials and some cheering ZANU-PF members.

The date of his burial has not yet been confirmed.