Riyaz Patel
Robert Mugabe will be buried “sometime next week,” a family spokesman said Thursday, refusing to give details, though, on where Zimbabwe’s former president would be laid to rest.
This, amid disagreement between his family and government over the funeral plans for Zimbabwe’s founding president.
Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until he was ousted by his own army and former loyalists in 2017, died in a Singapore hospital six days ago.
He was 95.
His body arrived in Zimbabwe from Singapore Wednesday, received by thousands who had flocked to the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport.
The body of the late former President Mugabe is now lying in state at the Rufaro Stadium in Harare where the public and supporters are paying their last respects to their late leader.
President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF party want Mugabe buried at a national monument to heroes of the
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