Dabengwa Speaks From Eternity: I’ll Be Buried At Ntabazinduna Not Heroes Acre
24 May 2019
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Dumiso Dabengwa

Explaining his disgust over the controversial choice of heroes and heroines by ZANU PF, and why he would rather be buried in the lands of his forefathers in Ntabazinduna than at Heroes Acre, the late liberator, Dumiso Dabengwa said this would be the same as being laid to rest among “thieves and crooks”.

Dabengwa spoke to the Daily News in a 2015 interview saying, “I come from the rural area at Ntabazinduna. That’s where my roots are and my grandparents, my parents and relatives are buried there, and that’s where I will be buried.

“I don’t wish to be buried anywhere else. I want to join the rest of my family. If they bury me at the Heroes Acre, I will probably rise from the grave,” Dabengwa said.

He said even if he were to become president of the country, he would not consider being buried at the National Heroes Acre.

Pointing to revered fellow nationalists such as James Chikerema and the founding father of Zanu, Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole —who were denied national hero status simply because they had fallen out with Robert Mugabe — Dabengwa said the country’s history would never be complete without the proper mention of such people.

“When you overlook people like Chikerema and Sithole, you are not doing the history of this country any good. These are the people who started the liberation struggle.

“Of course, they made their mistakes later on, but their contribution cannot be disputed or wished away. Their contribution cannot also be rubbed out by the mistakes that they made at the end,” Dabengwa asserted.