Brigadier General Shadreck Vezha conferred with a national hero status

Brigadier General Vezha died on Tuesday alongside other three Zimbabwe Defence Forces officers after being involved in a road accident along the Harare-Bulawayo road.

A funeral parade will be held for the late Brigadier General Shadreck Vezha and three other army officers who perished after a road traffic accident on Tuesday. The funeral parade will be held at 5 Brigade Kwekwe on Sunday.

A combined funeral parade for Brigadier General Shadreck Vezha, Major Thabani Ncube, Major Mqondisi Gumbo and Sergeant Learnmore Chakabaiwa, who all perished in an accident in Battlefields along the Harare – Bulawayo highway will be held on Sunday at 5 Brigade in Kwekwe. According to ZDF Director General Policy, Public Relations and International Affairs, Brigadier General Augustine Chipwere burial arrangements will be announced in due course.

The accident occurred when the vehicle, which the four army officers were travelling in collided head-on with a Mazda CX-5 that was travelling towards Kwekwe.