HARARE – Zimbabwe’s former President Robert Mugabe will be buried in the National Heroes Acre monument in the capital, his family says, ending a row with the government over his final resting site.
Family spokesman and nephew Leo Mugabe says the date is yet to be determined.
Before that, there will be a public memorial service at the shrine in the capital today followed by a ceremony at the late leader’s home village.
The decision to inter Mugabe, 95, at the state burial site is the latest turn in the tussle between his family and President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe’s once-trusted deputy who helped remove him from power in late 2017. Mugabe fired Mnangagwa in 2017, in what many believed was a way to prepare for his wife, Grace, to succeed him.
On Thursday, the family had said that the former president, whose body was flown back from Singapore where he was being treated on Wednesday, would be buried in his home town in a private ceremony.
But yesterday, family spokesman Leo said it had been decided the deceased would be buried at Heroes Acre after consultations with traditional chiefs. (BBC/AL JAZEERA)
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