Own Correspondent|Zanu-PF and government officials and their supporters embarrassed themselves when they walked away from the Dumiso Dabengwa burial proceedings when it was revealed that both Nelson Chamisa and Chief Nhlanhla Ndiweni had been added into the list of speakers.

Among those who immediately left the village was Information and Publicity Minister, Monica Mutsvangwa, Deputy Minister of Defence and War Veterans, Victor Matemadanda , Small and Medium Enterprises’ Sithembiso Nyoni and Speaker of the National Assembly, Jacob Mudenda.

The Joint Operations Command which had assumed running of the burial proceedings of the national hero, Dabengwa, tried by all means to block the two from being accommodated not only in the speakers list but also in the VIP list.

It took the insistence of Dabengwa’s widow Zodwa Dabengwa to demand that the two be included in the list of speakers.