Harare: AfricUpdate – News Desk
Zimbabwe and Mozambique continue to deepen cooperation in various sectors, with relations entrenched in the struggle for emancipation from white minority rule. One people split by artificial borders, Zimbabwe and Mozambique share a deep relationship that spans the Mutapa Empire to the struggle for independence and now for total economic prosperity.
These two countries continue to cooperate in the preservation of Chimurenga chronicles, with the anticipated visit to Mozambique by Vice President Colonel (Retired) Kembo Mohadi cementing these strong ties. Zimbabwe’s top envoy to Mozambique, Ambassador Victor Matemadanda says the Vice President is expected to visit various sites where Zimbabweans perished during the liberation struggle.
“One of the assignments that I was given by the President when I was posted here was to look for the graves identified and unidentified for the comrades who died during the Liberation War. And this we have done in almost all the provinces save for one, in Nampula province, where we have not gone because there is continuous war in there. Vice President has been assigned to come visit and see for himself these sites. There has been construction on some sites, but others there is no construction. In fact, proper burying, I mean, burying should be done. So the Vice President, is coming in that regard and will make recommendations to the President on the way forward, what should be done in the state of the shrines. So this is basically what he is coming here for,” he said.
He added that the visit will see Vice President Mohadi meeting the Mozambican Prime Minister where the two are expected to engage on cementing diplomatic cooperation between the two countries. “The visit by VP will deepen our bilateral standing and as you know the President was here recently in Chimoio where he donated there and this is reflective of our relationship between our two countries, and we continue to push and develop these ties,” he added.
In Mozambique, thousands of Zimbabweans lost their lives at sites which include Nyadzonya, Chimoio, Doroei, Tembwe, and Chibawawa, among others. The Tongogara Memorial Site has also been set up in honour of the late iconic liberation stalwart General Josiah Magama Tongogara who died on 26 December 1979.
