Own Correspondent|The late Zanu PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson and former Cabinet Minister Professor Callistus Ndlovu has been declared a national hero.

Professor Ndlovu died in South Africa on Wednesday this week.

Ndlovu is the third National Hero in as many months after Academia Professor Phenius Makhurane and musician Doctor Oliver Mtukudzi were accorded the same accolade.

The two heroes’ families declined to have their loved ones buried at the National Heroes Acre shrine opting to be buried at the rural homes in Gwanda and Bindura respectively.

Details of the repatriation of his body and burial will be announced in due course.