Friction emerges over where Robert Mugabe will be buried

Late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe. Picture: REUTERS

But it is still unclear where Mugabe will be buried amid reports that his family and government officials are at odds over his final resting place. But Mutsvangwa did not confirm Mugabe’s burial place. Reports have said that the former president left instructions to bury him at his rural home in Kutama mission village, about 80km outside Harare.

reserved for individuals, most from the ruling Zanu-PF party, deemed to have served the country with distinction. The Zimbabwe Independent newspaper reported in August that Mugabe, who was deeply bitter over the coup lead by Mnangagwa, did not want Mnangagwa to “pontificate over his dead body”. Mugabe was idolised as a champion of racial reconciliation when he came to power in 1980 and led Zimbabwe through its best days in the 1990s when it was the bread basket of Southern Africa.

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