President Emmerson Mnangagwa has left for Zambia to attend the funeral of the the late Rupiah Bwezani Banda.
President Banda is remembered for his unflinching call for removal of illegal sanctions on Zimbabwe.
He was born in Gwanda in 1937 in the then Southern Rhodesia.
Banda was instrumental in the smooth transfer of power from ex president Edgar Lungu to the then main opposition leader Hakainde Hichilema.
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