Mugabe to be buried at Zimbabwe nat’l shrine
Robert Mugabe will be buried at a Zimbabwean national shrine in Harare tomorrow, his nephew said yesterday, contradicting comments a day earlier which had suggested the family was resisting the government’s burial plans. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until he was ousted by his own army in November 2017, died in a Singapore hospital a week ago aged 95. Mugabe’s body arrived in Zimbabwe from Singapore on Wednesday and started three days of lying in state on Thursday. Some relatives, expressing bitterness at the way former comrades including Mnangagwa had ousted Mugabe, had pushed for him to be buried in his home village rather than at the shrine to heroes of the liberation war against white minority rule.
Source: AFP
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