By RFIPalled on 14-09-2019Modified on 14-09-2019 at 06:55
Ex-President Robert Mugabe will finally be buried next month in Harare.After several days of negotiations and tensions between the family of the deceased and the government, a compromise was found: he will be well buried in the "field of heroes", a national monument, as the government wanted. And this Saturday, a tribute is made to the national sports stadium in Harare.
" We are going to build a mausoleum at the top of the" Field of Heroes "hill to welcome the founding father ," said President Emmerson Mnangagwa Friday. The Field of Heroes is home to over a hundred Zimbabwean independence fighters.
The family of Robert Mugabe who wanted the deceased to be buried privately in his native village finally yielded to the insistence of the government . The funeral is planned in thirty days time to build the monument.
#Zimbabwe: President Robert #Mugabe will be buried within 30 days in the field of heroes in Harare, time to build a mausoleum, announces Leo Mugabe, spokesperson of the family pic.twitter.com/Hne1N5sBUZ
Alexandra Brangeon (@AlexRFI) September 13, 2019National funeral this Saturday
In the meantime, a national funeral is being held this Saturday in the Harare National Stadium, in the presence of several African heads of state. The final list is not yet known but several leaders have already arrived or confirmed their presence.
Some 20 are announced including Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, South African presidents Thabo Mbeki, Ghana's Jerry Rawlings and Namibian Sam Nujoma.
After today's ceremony, Robert Mugabe's body will be transported to his native village, about 100 kilometers from the capital, so that the inhabitants of the region can pay him a last homage.
Zimbabweans are divided
National hero or tyrant who ruined his country? Zimbabweans are divided and testify.
"I am in mourning for my brothers and sisters who were raised under Robert Mugabe," says a medical student. And who after doing their study have never been able to get a job in their field. It is for them that I am in mourning. Not for this old man who stole the future of a whole generation ... For this employee on the other hand, he deserves to be buried in the field of heroes. You have to look at what he has accomplished. Nobody is perfect, but I prefer to look on the bright side
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