Natalie Nyathi
The Meteorological Service Department (MSD) has said that the Independence Day weather should be much warmer than the past days.
“The weekend was cold, but Independence Day should be much warmer with mostly sunny conditions prevailing. Mostly sunny and warm daytime conditions are expected countrywide”
“It should be cool in the morning towards evening.
“Happy 43rd Independence day”, said the MSD in a statement.
Meanwhile, the country is set to have its national celebrations at Mt. Darwin, Mashonaland Central Province.
The President E.D Mnangagwa has said the day should be cherished as it belongs to all Zimbabweans in their broad totality.
“The story and tapestry of our struggle for national independence combines all tribes, religions, all tongues, all creeds and all colours”, he said.
“All these become riches and attributes which endow our land, adorn our freedom and go towards making our collective national identity. They live side by side; blend in harmony and in perfect peace. This is the diversity we gather to celebrate in two days’ time.
“We all belong; we all must belong, feel sheltered and at home under one national flag, and singing one national anthem in so many tongues as our God and heritage gave us. Unity, peace and love must bind us, for all times and across generations.
“The Zimbabwe our heroes freed from shackles of settler colonialism and handed down to us, today becomes the land we till, the land we grow, seek and strive to prosper. It becomes our daily chore and vocation; indeed, our collective assignment to which there should never be any sense of fatigue.”
He urged Zimbabwean Citizens to grow and modernise the Zimbabwe that the heroes freed so as to prove its worthy to its children and inheritors.
“Today, thanks to our freedom and independence, the land continues to reveal its hidden treasures to us, it’s children, forever reminding us to be provident stewards. We owe this land and its riches to generations to come,” he said.