Mugabe to be buried in his village: family
Zimbabwean ex-president Robert Mugabe will be buried next week in his village, his family said on Thursday, delivering an apparent snub to government plans to bury him at a national monument. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans divided over the legacy of a leader once lauded as a liberation hero but whose autocratic 37-year rule ended in a coup in 2017. Some family members are still bitter over Mugabe’s ouster and the role his former ally President Emmerson Mnangagwa Mnangagwa played. Mnangagwa had declared Mugabe a national hero after his death, indicating he should be buried at a national monument for liberation heroes for his role as a founding father. But the family said traditional chiefs in his homestead in the Zvimba region should decide.
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