By Margaret Kamba 

There’s literally not one place this week that did not experience a very cold spell accompanies with a light drizzle. There’s no single place that did not have a boy or girl, man or woman who did not go to war and this is perhaps the reason why this cold spell has reached everywhere. 

Each of us have literally felt the presence of Zimbabwe’s gallant sons and daughters who remained in the bush because they failed to come back like others due to their untimely demise. 

This week, ZANU PF held three Constitutional meetings, the Politburo, Central Committee and National Consultative Assembly. These are very important meetings and the National Consultative Assembly meeting has not been held in such a long time. It has therefore been important for them to be here with the others as the Party which they belong to plan and develop this country.

I believe the reason why the whole country has had this cold and wet spell is because there is not single place that did not take part in the struggle for Zimbabwe’s freedom. This is why they have reached their homes to remind each of us that we have a role to play in bringing them back home. 

Bringing them home is not just exhuming their remains and dumping them in the cold mortuaries where they freeze to death one more time.

Bringing them home is not identifying where they lie buried then doing endless meetings and budgets that never come to an end.

Bringing them home means them lying in their homesteads, communal graveyards, heroes acres and so on.

I hear someone say, the National Heroes Acre has no space to accommodate everyone of them. My reply to this crazy notion is that the country they fought for has huge tracts of land and all they may require is just that six feet under in order to be reunited with their families.

My reply to that absurd notion is that the resources which can build each of them any mausoleum of their choice.

So what exactly is halting their return home? Why exactly have they been kept in the mortuaries for this long?

 Funding you may say. My question however is, what kind of special funding is needed to bring Zimbabwe’s gallant sons and daughters back home after the brave fighting they put up to bring freedom to this country?

Is it a currency that has not yet been discovered that must bring them back home? But the ZiG is backed by the resources of their motherland. 

Ladies and gentlemen, let us not fail on our clock when it comes to this issue because if we do, our sons and daughters if not our grandchildren and great grand children will do that job.