ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Province recommends Chanetsa to be declared a national hero

ZANU-PF Mashonaland West Provincial chairperson Ephraim Chengeta yesterday said the province has recommended that veteran politician and nationalist Peter Chanetsa, who died on Monday morning, be declared a national hero.

Chanetsa was the first black Government chief of protocol and former Mashonaland West Governor and Resident Minister. The Zanu-PF Central Committee member succumbed to heart failure at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals. The letter was addressed to Zanu-PF secretary for Administration Ignatius Chombo. The province attached Cde Chanetsa’s curriculum vitae detailing his work in the party and Government.

Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday visited the Chanetsa family’s Borrowdale, Harare, home to pay his condolences while accompanied by service chiefs, led by the Commander Defence Forces General Constantino Chiwenga.