In this file photo taken on September 2, 2002, Former President Robert Mugabe listens to speeches during a session of the World Summit on Sustainable Development at Sandton convention center in Johannesburg. Anna ZIEMINSKI / AFP
A charter flight left Harare at nine am on Monday with family and senior party members and was expected to return with Mugabe’s body on Wednesday at 1300 GMT, the nephew and family spokesman Leo Mugabe told AFP. Although he sent his daughter to represent him at the inauguration of his former ally and successor Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe suggested his uncle never healed.
“The government has organised people from all over the country’s provinces come and bid their farewell at Rufaro stadium on Thursday and Friday.”
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