Zimbabwe’s government has announced a date for Robert Mugabe’s funeral.

A funeral for the longtime leader will be held on Saturday, September 14th and a burial ceremony will be held the following day.

This announcement comes amid a row over where the former president will be buried.

A government memo declared the funeral will be at Harare National Sports stadium on Saturday, September 14th but gave no location for the burial to follow the next day.

Members of the late Mr. Mugabe’s family are battling with the ruling Zanu PF party over its plan to bury the former leader in a cemetery for heroes of the liberation war in the capital.

Mugabe has a grave ready next to his first wife Sally in Heroes Acre, a North-Korea designed graveyard also home to prestigious Zanu PF supporters.
However, some of Mr Mugabe’s family want him interred in their rural village in Zvimba district, about 50 miles northwest of Harare.

"We want him buried here. Heroes, for what?" Mr Mugabe’s cousin, Josephine Jorincha, told AFP in the village of Kutama.

Mr Mugabe’s nephew, Leo, who is the family’s head of burial preparations, told the Telegraph that he was negotiating with village chiefs over the final site for Mugabe's burial.

He said that Mr Mugabe’s toppling in a 2017 coup by his former right-hand man Emerson Mnangagwa had rendered the former dictator ambivalent about being buried in the Zanu PF shrine. However, Leo said that he believed Mr Mugabe would eventually be buried in Heroes’ Acre.

He said: "I am sure he will be buried at Heroes’ Acre. We are with the chiefs, we have to consult."

source: https://www.titiloyeblog.com/2019/09/robert-mugabe-to-be-buried-on-september.html

May His soul rest in peace.

Where he is buried doesn't actually matter...an icon is an icon... That fact cannot be changed.

The legacy he left behind can never be forgotten even in the next generation to come.

RIP to him

Rest in Peace sir

Eeyaaa

His manhood lives on

RIP

Emrixx:
His manhood lives on

U are alive problem, u die problem.

My Africa.. We've lost all our greats.
Mugabe only F"ed up wen he refused to relinquish power.. He was really a bright leader...
Ghadafi went, new Mugabe...
Who do we hv left ?
Cyril Mamphosa, Buhari, and other yes men, that even deal with current african problems not to talk of standing up to the west

..

They can hang the corpse in their parlour

Xx




For some, Robert Mugabe will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and "criminals" around him.

But to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.

In the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go
He was a Hero and also a villain... Rip

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Rest in peace Mugabe.
May God have mercy on you and receive your soul.

you're hot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Emrixx:
His manhood lives on

Na wao.

Okay

Africa indeed lost a true son

I will personally miss u daddy..best president ever! will buhari be missed like this?

That was a real father and a leader indeed,
sleep on, our great leaders, sleep on, great king.
We miss you.

R.I.P.

So dis man don die!!!!

RIP