‘Mugabe family won’t risk losing property over burial disputes’: Journalist
Updated | By Lulutho Mkosi
Disputes over the burial arrangements for former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, seem to have reached an amicable conclusion between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Mugabe family.
The 95-year old died earlier this month while receiving medical treatment in Singapore.
Since then, the Mugabe family and the Zimbabwean government have been at odds over whether the former president would be buried in his homestead in Kutama village or at Zimbabwe’s National Heroes Acre in the capital, Harare.
After the state funeral held on Saturday, Mugabe’s body is expected to be taken to his village for a wake on Monday, but is said to return to Harare later this week for the private burial at the National Heroes Acre.
Zimbabwean veteran journalist and correspondent, Zenzele Ndebele, believes the family have come to this agreement to avoid losing their properties.
READ: Mugabe's body heads for wake in home village
“The government was saying the house where Mugabe was staying in and all the other properties are in the party's name. So if the family doesn’t want to him to be buried at Heroes Acre, then they stand a chance of losing those properties.”
The family have requested that the late former president be buried after the completion of a shrine, which could take up to a month to be constructed.
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