Speaking at the fifth Zanu-PF Mashonaland West Presidential Youth Interface Rally held at Chinhoyi University of Technology grounds on Saturday, President Robert Mugabe recommended heroes status for the 7 fighters who died at the Battle of Chinhoyi.
Said Mugabe:
We, the rest, must continue to think not just of the present, but of those who fell, beginning with the gallant seven sons who fell here (in Chinhoyi), in defence of our country, in defence of our revolution. I have visited the graves. I would want the seven of them, all of them, because they are the ones who started on this side, the Zanu side, the armed struggle as we recognise it today, the guerilla struggle. I would want to recommend to the rest of our comrades in Government that we declare all the seven, as they lie there, national heroes and erect a monument there, inscribing their names.
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