Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa, left, leaves with Grace Mugabe after receiving the body of her husband, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in Harare, Zimbabwe, on September 11, 2019. Picture: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKOZimbabwean president Robert Mugabe will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, his family said on Thursday.
"His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night … followed by a private burial — either Monday or Tuesday — no National Heroes Acre. That's the decision of the whole family," his nephew, Leo Mugabe, told AFP. Zimbabweans have been split over the death of a leader once hailed for ending the former British colony Rhodesia of white-minority rule but who later purged his foes in a brutal crackdown.
After his body arrived home, though, Mugabe's final burial place became a point of dispute between his family and the government.
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