Zimbabwe to name Harare International Airport after MUGABE

While a few rogue protesters not more than 20 are demonstrating against Zimbabwe president, Robert Mugabe at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Zimbabweans back home have agreed to rename the Harare International Airport after the long serving leader.

The renaming will take effect from November 2017, a cabinet minister said on Friday.

Transport and Infrastructure Development Minister, Joram Gumbo, told state media that the airport would be renamed Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport after the International Civil Aviation Organisation approved the proposed change of names.

The International Civil Aviation Organisation has approved the change of name. The process has started and by end of November we will have renamed it,’ Gumbo said.

93-year-old Mugabe is the only leader the South African country has ever know since it gained independence from Britain in 1980.

This would be the second time in post-independent Zimbabwe that an airport has been named after a person.