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By Bulawayo Correspondent THE Home Affairs Ministry is planning to accord a Bulawayo tree, which was used by the colonialists to hang Africans, national monument status. The tree, situated between Connaught and Masotsha Ndlovu avenues in the second capital city, was used during the first Umvukela/Ndebele uprising in 1896. At that time nine African men, who were found guilty by the white settlers for spying, were hanged. The Bulawayo City Council last month received a letter from the National Museum and Monuments of Zimbabwe seeking permission from the local authority to upgrade the site into a national monument. “National Museum and Monuments of Zimbabwe at the request of the Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage, Cde Kazembe Kazembe is in the process of nominating the Hanging Tree in Bulawayo to become a national monument,” the letter, addressed to Bulawayo City director for Housing Dictor Khumalo, reads in part. ....