The Sunday Mail
Online Reporter
President Mnangagwa has conferred national hero status on Ambassador Johannes Tomana, who died on August 6 after a short illness.
He was 56.
In a statement on Wednesday, Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda said: “His Excellency the President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, Cde Dr Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, today announced the conferment of national hero status on the late Advocate Johannes Tomana, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), who passed away on August 6, 2023 after a short illness.”
Ambassador Tomana served as Deputy Attorney-General starting in 2006, before being promoted to the position of substantive Attorney-General in 2008.
He was then appointed as the country’s first Prosecutor-General under the New Constitution from November 2013.
He played a critical role in shaping the country’s legal ethos and the prosecutorial system.
He was then re-deployed in 2020 as the Second Republic’s Ambassador to the DRC.
“His Excellency the President again extends his deepest, heartfelt condolences to the Tomana family on the untimely passing on of a loving, hardworking and caring husband, father and guardian,” added Dr Sibanda.
“He urges the Tomana family to derive solace from the assurance that the nation he so diligently served, befittingly honours him today in this very special way, and joins them in sharing their grief.”
Meanwhile, President Mnangagwa also paid his condolences to the Tomana at their family home in Harare.
