President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday struggled to explain the background of  Aguy Georgias, who he declared a national hero and buried  at the national shrine.
What the aging leader managed to say was that the late industrialist was a “real fighter” who fought against sanctions.
“Aguy belongs to the league of man and women who rejected oppression and racial discrimination, that is the legacy he has left. Today we are celebrating a life well lived, at 80 years, the things he achieved makes his life greater than his death,…. Georgias has left us a record which today chides you, chides all of us. It is a record which exalts us all a life worth lived,” said Mugabe who is on record saying that only those who took part in the liberation war deserved to be buried at the national heroes Acre.
According to Mugabe the war that Georgias fought was that of dragging the EU to the courts for imposing sanctions on his personal, Trinity Engineering Company and the deportation of his family from Britain.
To show that Mugabe was at pains to qualify Geogias’hero status, the state media attempted a stretched historical background of the party apologist which is below.
Who is Cde Aguy Georgias?
 

• Former Deputy Minister of Economic Development as well as Deputy Minister of Public Works and National Housing.

• Was Zanu PF Central Committee member.

• A businessman, founder and Managing Director of Trinity Engineering (Private) Limited.

• Senator Georgias served as a member of the recently dissolved POTRAZ board.

• He died at the age 80 last Friday at A.M.I Hosptial in Avondale, Harare after succumbing to heart and kidney failure.

Stance Against Sanctions

• Cde Georgias made several remarks on his stance on sanctions.

• He argued that the sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe as the country ruined relations with Britain by redistributing land which previously was largely in the hands of the white minority.

• Cde Georgias also fought against the deportation of children from the United Kingdom where they were pursuing their studies. The children were scheduled for deportation on the basis of their father being a Zanu PF member who had been blacklisted.

• Although he was reportedly removed from the sanctions list, Cde Georgias noted that for the five years that he was on the list his business interests suffered significantly.