Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe was buried in a steel-lined coffin under a layer of concrete on Saturday, September 28th following a bitter dispute over his resting place between government officials, traditional leaders and family members.

Twenty-two days after he died, the body of the former leader was finally buried next to his home in Kutama, Zvimba, the village of his birth, 55 miles north west of Harare. His eldest nephew, Leo Mugabe, who played a central role in the prolonged burial drama, said the coffin which brought his embalmed body to Harare from Singapore had to be changed for security reasons.

“People really are after his body or his body parts, so we wanted something that is tamper-proof. That is why the casket was changed,” he told a local radio station.

After the coffin was lowered into the ground in a private ceremony close to the home which Grace Mugabe had built after their marriage, concrete was laid down around it. Mugabe's family claimed that this was the burial place he had ultimately wanted and had spoken of in the last six months of his life in Singapore, angry that he had been ousted from power two years ago by his long-time ally, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Mrs Mugabe, 54, draped in heavy black lace for more than three weeks, had made it clear to all who would listen that President Mnangagwa and his loyalists were not welcome at the burial. Had he been buried at Heroes Acre, the burial ground commissioned by her late husband and the resting place preferred by the government, she would not have been able to prevent their attendance.

Crucially, it would also have meant him being buried next to his first wife, Sally Mugabe, still regarded by many as the "mother" of the Zimbabwean nation.

Source:
https://www.denland.site/2019/09/robert-mugabe-buried-in-steel-lined.html

Again

Sand, ashes and dust is human, then the 'being' is the spirit, which keeps account of our activities.
RIP. Roberto mugabe.

Our father, we come from dust
And we shall return to same
God bless the fallen men
Either his path was evil
Either his path was good
The wind hath brought him here
And hath such took him away
Farther away from the land of return
God bless the fallen man
As we are born
Such shall a man die
God bless the fallen man
Mother earth, we are all yours for the taken
But do please, let our time be long for the saving
Life is short
God bless the fallen man

Every bad man has some good roles to play.
U may call him whatever but to me he was anti imperialist, truthful, fearless and one of the fore runners of Pan Africanism.
We have been made to look down on our things and rather idolize foreigners and their bullshits.
Mugabe, Maumar Gaddafi and Abacha were torns in the flesh of those who wanted us to look down on ourselves.


mejoisland

What a befitting burial for an elder statesman.
R I P to Robert Mugabe

....... And so one day at a time, we'd all become history!

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