Zimbabwe plans Mugabe's funeral and burial next weekend

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.

Mugabe had dominated Zimbabwean politics for almost four decades from independence in 1980 until he was removed by his own army in a November 2017 coup. The memo sent by Zimbabwe’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs to embassies in Harare and seen by Reuters said the funeral would be in the National Sports Stadium but did not specify where the burial would be.

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.

Chris Sambo, a former soccer administrator who used to arrange matches for Mugabe in his home village of Kutama, said the southern African country’s Catholic community had lost one of its most important members.“I think everyone can admit that without the work he did we would not be as independent as we are,” she said.

I don't like the feeling of being happy that someone is dead, but I'll get over it. I still think they should install a toilet on his grave so people can pay tribute.

Hurry!

Last rite of a dictator .

Throw it in a ditch and let it rot. Thank the stars it’s dead.

Memorial for his victims is just too much trouble

Nobody is saying HE IS THE MOST EDUCATED PRESIDENT THAT EVER LIVED?

And the unctuous lies will come pouring forth. As each toady politician tries to outdo the next.

Hmmm funeral for a dictator!

I wonder how much it will cost?

RIP Mugabe.

Finally he died.

🐀

I really don't care.

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