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President Robert Mugabe wins his last fight, Mnangagwa's govt concedes defeat

THE late former President Robert Mugabe won his last fight from beyond the grave and was buried at his rural home in Zvimba in what what was seen as an embarrassing snub to his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa..

Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s founding father, had been expected to be buried at the National Heroes’ Acre in a specially-constructed mausoleum, but the family,.which had kept his body at his Blue Roof mansion since its repatriation from Singapore, where he died on September 6, got their wish. His body was taken to Zvimba Thursday evening under police and military escort...


The rural burial is seen as a snub to his former aide Mnangagwa and the military who kicked Mugabe out of office in a coup in November 2017..Former First Lady Grace Mugabe has been leading a spirited fight in her husband’s corner even after Zvimba chiefs, led by Chief Zvimba, had insisted that he be buried at the national shrine amid allegations that they had received some money to push that position..Government will now stop the construction of the mausoleum because it is now of no use, Information Secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana said..


“Why should we continue to construct it? What for? I have not yet communicated with the Public Works department, but at least it won’t be constructed for now,” he said..Zanu PF youth leader Pupurai Togarepi betrayed the frustration in the ruling party with the family’s decision..“Bob died on the 6th of September 2019. What we have in the coffin are his remains, bury them where you want. Let’s stop this whole grandstanding with the body as if the old man will walk again.We all loved him, but he is gone forever. Allow the former President to rest in peace,” he tweeted when the news of the Zvimba burial broke out..

There was drama at the Blue Roof after the family called Doves Funeral Services for the hearse to come and collect his body. Sources alleged Doves then alerted a government minister,.who called family spokesperson Leo Mugabe, registering his displeasure at the family’s decision after earlier agreeing to have the former leader buried in a mausoleum at the National Heroes’ Acre..“Leo Mugabe told the minister that there was nothing he could do because the family had agreed to have him buried at his rural home.He said he stood guided by the family’s decision,” a family source said.. The minister is said to have threatened not to process a burial order for Mugabe,.

but the family insisted they already had the burial document for Mugabe and nothing could change their final position. It was after the government minister’s call to Leo.that some police details went to Blue Roof to block the family from taking the body off to Zvimba until Mnangagwa’s government finally conceded defeat and issued a statement that it would now respect the family’s wish..Last Friday, Grace kicked out chiefs from her Blue Roof mansion after accusing them of trying to connive with government to use her former husband’s body for personal gain..

On Monday, South African opposition Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema gave a brief of what was in the offing.when he accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government of trying to ride on Mugabe’s legacy by burying him at the national shrine and defying his wishes..The former President was yesterday interred at his rural home in a ‘specially constructed site’ in the courtyard of the house of his first wife, Sally..

The burial was conducted in accordance with Roman Catholic rites, which were presided over by Father Paul Tigere of Marymount Parish..Family members and a handful of villagers related to the Mugabes attended the event.Mashonaland West Minister of State for Provincial Affairs Mrs Mary Mliswa-Chikoka was among those at the funeral..

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