This according to family spokesperson Leo Mugabe.
“Yes I can confirm,” Leo Mugabe told reporters when asked whether the family had agreed to a burial in National Heroes Acre in Harare.“They have now pronounced their position so if they have pronounced that the burial will be at the Heroes Acre that means that we now have to wait for the details… whether it will be a private burial or a public one.
“On Sunday, the body will be taken to the Heroes Acre. The normal function at Heroes Acre will take place, that is the 21-gun salute and the conferment of heroism on him by the government will take place at the shrine,” Mugabe told the media at Rufaro Stadium on Friday. Widow Grace Mugabe reportedly wishes for her late husband to be buried in a mausoleum, which will break with tradition, with normal Heroes Acre burial involves graves separated by a granite tombstone, reports explain.The former liberation hero’s 37-year rule was marked by repression and economic ruin. His health deteriorated after he was toppled by the army and former loyalists in November 2017, ending an increasingly iron-fisted rule during which he crushed his opponents.
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