Riyaz Patel
Robert Mugabe will be buried at a monument for national heroes in the capital, Harare, Sunday, a family spokesman has confirmed, as the row over the funeral of Zimbabwe’s founding president appears to have been settled.
On Thursday, the family had said the former Zimbabwe president, whose body was flown back from Singapore Wednesday, would be buried in his home town in a private ceremony.
Mugabe’s body has been lying in state in Harare since Thursday after the government announced three days of national mourning.
“I can confirm that he will be buried at the National Heroes Acre on Sunday,” Mugabe’s nephew and family spokesman Leo Mugabe said Friday.
He added that an official ceremony would be followed by a private family event at the monument to heroes of the liberation war against white minority rule.
Some of Mugabe’s relatives have expressed bitterness at the way former close associates, including President Emmerson Mnangagwa, overthrew him.
Mnangagwa, a one-time
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