1.0 2023 INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS AND CHILDRENS PARTY
Cabinet received an update on the status of preparations for the 2023
Independence Anniversary and Childrens Party Celebrations, as presented by the Minister of Local Government and Public Works, Hon J.G. Moyo, Chairperson of the Cabinet Committee on State Occasions and National Monuments.
Cabinet wishes to inform the nation that the Independence Celebrations will be held on the 18th of April, 2023 at Mount Darwin High School in Mashonaland Central Province and will be running under the theme: Zim@43: Nyika Inovakwa Nevene Vayo /Ilizwe Lakhiwa Ngabanikazi Balo. In line with Governments devolution and decentralisation thrust, the 2023 Childrens Party Celebrations will be held at Pfura Stadium, Mount Darwin Centre on the 17th April, 2023, while the 2023 Independence Anniversary Celebrations will be held on 18th April, 2023 at Mount Darwin High School, Mount Darwin Centre. Learners are being mobilised from all Provinces for the Childrens Party as well as providing entertainment and mass displays. An additional four hundred children will be drawn from the districts in the hosting province, bringing the total to 1 500 children. The Musical bands for the Childrens Party will be as follows: Freeman; Voltz-Kosilati Sibaya; and Leo Magozz. The Programme will start at 0900hrs and end at 1600hrs. His Excellency the President will lead in the planting of at least 43 trees on the 17th of April at the Independence Celebrations venue to mark 43 years of Independence. An assortment of fruit trees will be planted at the Mount Darwin High School orchard.