HARARE: The Zimbabwean government plans a state funeral for longtime ruler Robert Mugabe in a sports stadium in Harare next Saturday, with a ...
HARARE: The Zimbabwean government plans a state funeral for longtime ruler Robert Mugabe in a sports stadium in Harare next Saturday, with a burial ceremony a day later, it said in memo sent to embassies on Sunday .
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who worked closely with Mugabe for decades before helping to oust him, granted Mugabe the status of national hero within hours of his death. In comments to The Sunday Mail newspaper Mnangagwa's spokesman George Charamba denied that the government and Mugabe's family were at loggerheads over where the former president should be buried and said the provisional plan was for the burial to be at National Heroes Acre.
Visitors embrace as they leave Singapore Casket, the funeral parlour where the body of the late former Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is being held in Singapore, on Sep 8, 2019. Congregants attend Sunday Mass at Zimbabwe's founding father Robert Mugabe's church in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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