ZANU-PF secretary for Information and Publicity, Christopher Mutsvangwa has paid an emotional tribute to the late Geza describing him as a liberation war comrade and long-standing family friend. Addressing journalists at the party headquarters, Mutsvangwa said his relationship with Geza dated back to the early years of Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. “You may want to know that l have historically been close to that family because two of its siblings are still alive after going to the war.
It’s a very heroic family or clan,” he said. Mutsvangwa said he first met Geza in 1975 in Mozambique during the formative years of the armed struggle against white minority rule. “I met Geza in 1975 when Mozambique opened the refugee camp…so l have known him from the beginning and resumption of the struggle in Mozambique,” he said.
According to Mutsvangwa, the two reconnected after independence in 1980, when Geza returned home. “He only came back home after two years into Independence in 1982, that’s when l met him again,” he said. He described Geza as a committed supporter of war veterans noting that he had used personal resources to assist former fighters particularly during politically turbulent periods. “He also had excess funds which he used generously to support the war veterans,” he said.
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