Red faces at 'Zimbawe' ceremony
Publish date: 11 December 2017
Issue Number: 755
Diary: IBA Legalbrief Africa
Category: Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has spotted a spelling error on an official plaque during the official renaming of the country's main army barracks in Harare. Mnangagwe pointed out that the name of the country was incorrectly spelled as 'Zimbawe'. BBC News reports that all barracks nationwide are being named after national heroes. Harare's King George VI Barracks will change to Josiah Tongogara, the guerrilla commander who led forces during the liberation struggle and died in a car crash just before independence in 1980.