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Publisher (J.T)
September 26, 2019
A battle over where formerZimbabwean president Robert Mugabe should be laid to rest took anotherunexpected turn on Thursday, with a family spokesman saying that he would beburied at the weekend in his rural hometown of Kutama.
Mugabe, who died at the age of 95 inSingapore on September 6, was both revered for his liberation politics andreviled for his later dictatorial rule in the southern African country.
The Zimbabwean government wantedMugabe to be buried at the National Heroes Acre, a hilltop shrine in the capitalHarare reserved for the elite, but his family pushed for him to be laid to restin Kutama alongside his mother.
The two sides had eventually settledfor a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre and a postponement of the funeraluntil October so that the structure could be built.
But family spokesman Leo Mugabe tolddpa on Thursday that he had received instructions from the family to go toKutama – located about 85 kilometres from Harare – to make arrangements for theburial, which is now scheduled for this Saturday.