So Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zapu wants a dead comrade to be buried at the National Heroes Acre. The party has actually written to Zanu PF making the rather ridiculous request. But why? Zanu PF has it on record that the burial shrine is a members only hallowed ground, so what’s likely to change now? Perhaps it’s a case of making the usual necessary noises to heap more muck on Zanu PF that they continue denying kosher national heroes and vanguards of the struggle due recognition. But isn’t that known already?

You have to recall how many times Zanu PF has had to posthumously declare some long forgotten ex-Zipra stalwart a national hero after some botched attempt to ignore the dead hero’s “liberation war credentials.”

The wise leave natural justice to the gods, and Zanu PF has long dared the gods. In those same inscrutable ways this party may well just be burying itself alive.

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