Brig-Gen Siziba succumbed to shortness of breath at his
house in Northvale, Bulawayo on August 1, while Ambassador Tomana died after
complaining of stomach pains after visiting his rural home in Honde Valley last
Sunday.
In a statement yesterday, the Ministry of Home Affairs and
Cultural Heritage confirmed the twin burials.
“The Ministry of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage wishes
to advise the nation that there shall be a twin burial for the two late
national heroes at the National Heroes Acre on Monday 14 August 2023.
“His Excellency, the President Cde Dr ED Mnangagwa will
preside over the event,” said the ministry.
Other senior Government and ruling party officials that
include Vice-President and Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Constantino
Chiwenga, Zanu-PF Vice-President and Second Secretary Cde Kembo Mohadi,
Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri,
ministers and members of the diplomatic community, are also expected to attend.
Mourners are expected to be seated by 7am.
“The burials shall be preceded by the commemorations of
Heroes Day at the same venue,” said the ministry.
Brig-Gen Siziba joined the liberation war as a Zipra cadre
and was attested into the Zimbabwe National Army where he rose through the
ranks to become Brigadier General and later joined the then ZPS.
Ambassador Tomana was a lawyer by training and
distinguished himself in private practice.
In 2005, Ambassador Tomana was appointed to be one of the
commissioners of the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission, one of the
independent constitutional bodies established to fight graft.
He was later appointed Attorney General in 2008, where he
performed the dual role of leading the prosecution department and Government
advisory role.
The two were later split under the new Constitution that
came into effect in 2013, where Ambassador Tomana became the country’s first
Prosecutor General.
He later joined the diplomatic service in 2020 and was posted to the DRC in the same year. Herald
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