A former security director in the President’s Office, Beaven Murahwa, who has been accorded a State-assisted funeral and liberation war hero status will be buried today in the afternoon.
Murahwa will be laid to rest at Muchena village in Penhalonga, Manicaland Province.
He succumbed to diabetes and kidney complications at a private hospital in Harare, aged 66.
Family spokesperson, Millicent Mombeshora announced the burial arrangements during a memorial service at his home in Mt Pleasant, Harare. She said:
We are leaving this afternoon to Mutare, Penhalonga. Cde Murahwa will be buried tomorrow (today) on Friday at 1 pm in Muchena Village. Mourners are now moving to Muchena.
Murahwa is a liberation struggle stalwart who joined the armed struggle in 1975.
He crossed the border into Mozambique before undergoing military training at Morogoro Camp in Tanzania later that year.
Murahwa’s Chimurenga name was Cde Shungu Dzemoyo.
He is survived by his wife, Sarah, three children and two grandchildren.
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