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Zimbabwe: Ex-President Mugabe Laid to Rest in Rural Home
DW, 28 September 2019
Zimbabwe's heroes have traditionally been buried at Harare's National Heroes Acre. But after much wrangling between the government and Robert Mugabe's family, the former leader has… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: 'Shamed' Mugabe Made Choice to Be Buried in Zvimba - Family
New Zimbabwe, 29 September 2019
LATE former State President Robert Mugabe is the one who expressed a wish not to be buried at the National Heroes Acre, confiding in close family members that he had been… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Gets His Final Wish - No Hero's Burial
DW, 28 September 2019
Zimbabwe's heroes have traditionally been buried at Harare's National Heroes Acre. But after much wrangling between the government and Robert Mugabe's family, the former leader was… Read more »
Former Zimbabwean President Mugabe Buried at His Rural Home
The remains of former president Robert Mugabe have been buried in the courtyard of his rural homestead in Zvimba during a private ceremony. Mugabe's burial place had been a subject of contestation between the family and government, with the former insisting that his wishes were to be buried at his rural home while the latter wanted him buried at Heroes Acre.
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe, all in black, with her sister Shuvai Gumbochuma, carrying red handbag, at the burial of Robert Mugabe in Zvimba.
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The family of the late former president Robert Mugabe will now bury him at his home village in Zvimba. Mugabe's burial place had been a subject of contestation between the family and government, with the former insisting that his wishes were to be buried at his rural home while the latter wanted him buried at Heroes Acre. The government has been building a mausoleum at the national burial site, in accordance with an earlier request from the family.
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Former and current African leaders attended the state funeral of former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe at the National Sports Stadium in the capital, Harare. Mugabe died on September 6 in Singapore at the age of 95. He ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years and left behind a legacy marked by repression and economic crisis.
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Late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe will be buried at a monument for national heroes in the capital, Harare, a family spokesman said, as the feud over the funeral appears to have been resolved. Earlier, the family had said that Mugabe, who's body was flown back from Singapore, would be buried in his home town in a private ceremony.
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