By RFIPosted on 08-09-2019Modified on 08-09-2019 at 21:01

The former Zimbabwean president is expected to be buried on Sunday, September 15 after an official ceremony held the day before in Harare.

The body of Robert Mugabe will be repatriated Wednesday of Singapore. The former Zimbabwean president is expected to be buried Sunday (September 15th). Since Friday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has declared official mourning and awarded his predecessor the status of "national hero", which gives him a place in the " Field of Heroes of the Nation ", the Zimbabwean pantheon. But the fallen president's family would not be in favor.

Leo Mugabe, the nephew of the ousted president, received the press on Saturday in the home village of former head of state Kutama, located 85 km from the capital Harare, somewhere along the Robert Mugabe highway. He says that since his ouster of power the old independence hero was " bitter ". " You can imagine that the people you trust, the people who guard you, the ones who watch over your safety are the same as those who turn against you, " says this family member.

Disagreements on the place of funeral

The nephew says he does not know where his uncle wanted to be buried. But a funeral at the "Field of Heroes of the Nation", as planned before his dismissal, would be official funeral organized by Robert Mugabe's scorer, Emmerson Mnangagwa. Which would bother the family.

Yet it is at the "Field of Heroes of the Nation" that Robert Mugabe's first wife, Sally, is buried. Like him, she was one of the liberators of the country, considered by many until her death as the mother of the Zimbabwean nation. A place next to her grave has been reserved for her husband for a long time.

But the friends and allies of Grace, Robert Mugabe's second wife, insist on the fact that the old man wanted to be buried in his native region. A burial he wanted, according to them, since his dismissal, in small committee.

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