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‘Zanu PF Cant Repair Economy Before Repatriation Of First Chimurenga Skulls From UK’-Jonathan Moyo

Posted on August 21, 2015August 21, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE Zanu PF government cannot concentrate on turning around the economy for now before repatriation of the remains of the country’s First Chimurenga heroes lying in foreign museums, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has said. Commenting on his Twitter account in response to a remark by one of his followers calling on government to concentrate on rebuilding the free-falling economy, Moyo said: “How can we focus on the economy when the skulls…

Government Presses For Repatriation Of First Chimurenga (1893-1896) Heroes Skulls From Britain

Posted on August 16, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

THE government is “frantically working” to repatriate from Britain skulls of indigenous people killed in a 1890s anti-colonialism war, said a Cabinet minister. However, Robert Barrett, one of the country’s leading historians and archeologists, told the Telegraph that there was no proof that any skulls of Zimbabwe’s early liberation fighters ended up in the UK after they were executed during the first rebellion against British rule in 1896. Again, there are reportedly no qualified pathologists…