Mugabe's body heads for wake in home village

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The remains of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe will be taken to his village for a wake on Monday, September 16, a family member said, as his final burial is prepared in about a month.

REMEMBERING. A villager of Zvimba, rural district of Zimbabwe's late former President Robert Mugabe creates a collage with Mugabe's old campaign posters at the Mugabe family compound in Kutama, where people gathered to wait for the arrival of his body, on September 15, 2019. Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP

ZIMBABWE – , nearly two years after he was ousted in a 2017 coup that ended nearly four decades of increasingly autocratic rule.on Saturday, September 14, in the capital Harare attended by African leaders, his body will go to his rural village of Kutama, 90 kilometers to the west, to allow villagers to pay tribute and bid farewell.

"He is going to come tomorrow," his nephew Leo Mugabe told Agence France-Presse on Sunday, September 15. Leo Mugabe said the body will spend Monday night in a village area and was expected to be driven back to Harare on Tuesday, September 17.Mugabe's final burial arrangements were mired in a dispute between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the family over where and when the former leader should be buried.in Harare in about 30 days, after a new mausoleum is built for him.

Mugabe, a former liberation hero whose rule was marked by repression and economic chaos, left Zimbabwe deeply torn over his legacy as the country still struggles with high inflation and shortages of goods after decades of crisis.

 

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