After what seemed an eternity for villagers who gathered at his rural homestead in Zvimba since his demise on September 6, Robert Mugabe's body was on Monday brought back to where his life's journey began 95 years ago.
Of course, throughout those years, former president Mugabe - except for the time he spent fighting for Zimbabwe's liberation, mainly from 1960 to 1980 -- never lost touch with the Savanna grasslands where he was born and raised.
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