By A Correspondent- Gukurahundi architecture President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has rewarded his top ally in the 1980s genocide massacres in Matabeleland, the late Lieutenant General Absolom Edzai Chimonyo with national hero status.

Mnangagwa, Perrence Shiri and Chimonyo were the engineers of the Gukurahundi atrocities that killed 20 000 civilians in Matabeleland and Midlands provinces in the 1980s.

Chimonyo died of cancer on Thursday.