AFRICA DIPLOMATIC

Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe’s ousted  President, will be buried early next week in his native village next to his mother’s grave,  and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, the family informed on September 12.

The Mugabe family members, who surrounded him when he died in Singapore hospital last week, and Zimbabwe‘s government have been at odds over whether the he could be buried in his homestead in Kutama, or at the National Heroes Acre in Harare.

“His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night.. followed by a private burial – either Monday or Tuesday – no National Heroes Acre. That’s the decision of the whole family,” his nephew Leo Mugabe told AFP.