Govt
names roads after Muzenda, Nkomo - New Zimbabwe 23/01/2015
FOURTH
Street in Harare will be changed to Simon Vengai Muzenda Street, in
honour
of the late vice-president who passed away in 2003, according to
the
latest Government Gazette.
Main
Street in Bulawayo will also be renamed Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo
Street.
In December 2013 Nkomo's statue was erected in the same street and
at
exactly the same spot where imperialist Cecil John Rhodes's statue
stood
for decades.
Muzenda
also known as the `Soul of the Nation' passed away in September
2003
while former vice-president Nkomo, fondly known as `Father Zimbabwe'
died in
July 1999.
The two
are interred at the National Heroes Acre in Harare and have been
key
figures in Zimbabwean politics with Nkomo having been the main actor
during
the liberation struggle.
The
announcement was revealed by the minister of Local Government, Public
Works
and National Housing, Ignatius Chombo in the Names (Alteration)
Amendment
of Schedule) Notice, 2015.
However
it could not be established when the two roads will be renamed and
if the
local authorities concerned had been consulted on the issue.
Just
after independence roads in Harare Central Business District were
renamed
in honour of Zimbabwe's national heroes and other African icons
like
former Mozambican and Tanzanian Presidents Samora Machel and Julius
Nyerere.
Other
roads that were to be renamed with time include Union Avenue (Kwame
Nkrumah),
Second Street (Sam Mujoma) and Baker Avenue (Nelson Mandela).
Road
names were also changed in other cities like Bulawayo and Kwekwe.
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