{"id":46266,"date":"2022-08-01T05:53:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/minister-biruta-honours-zimbabwean-heroes\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T05:56:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T05:56:35","slug":"minister-biruta-honours-zimbabwean-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/minister-biruta-honours-zimbabwean-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Biruta honours Zimbabwean Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zimbabwean Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revealed that Minister Biruta visited the country\u2019s National Heroes Acre on Saturday 30th July 2022. The latter is located in the western part of Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.  <\/p>\n<p>During the visit, Minister Biruta laid a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier at the National Shrine representing all soldiers who died in the war between 1966\u20131979 to liberate the country from white colonizers and obtain Independence. <\/p>\n<p>He was accompanied by officials including Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James Musoni. <\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s heroes include Robert Mugabe who served as the first president Cephas Cele, Oliver Mtukudzi, Felix Ngwarati Muchemwa, Sabina Mugabe, Edgar Tekere, Samuel Mamutse and Dzingai Mutumbuka.<\/p>\n<p>The National Heroes Acre was established in 1980. <\/p>\n<p>The visit of Minister Biruta left both countries signing three cooperation agreements in the areas of transport and infrastructure development, extradition treaty and immigration cooperation.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43518 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fy-gzkcxkaapek7-bc87b.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Biruta laying a wreath at the National Heroes Acre. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43517 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fy-gz9axeaepiqb-2cec8.jpg\" alt=\"Minister Biruta was accompanied by officials including Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to Zimbabwe, James Musoni. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta has honoured Zimbabwean Heroes on his visit to the country.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46266"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46266"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}