Bona, Bellarmine and Robert Mugabe junior, all children of the late former president of Zimbabwe, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, have made an appeal against Chief Zvimba’s ruling that ordered the exhumation and reburial of the veteran leader’s remains.
Three children of the late former Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe have filed a court application challenging a traditional chief’s order for the body to be exhumed and reburied at the National Heroes Acre.
Row over directive to exhume Robert Mugabeâs body
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Pretoria - The Zimbabwe Communist Party said while it vehemently disagreed with the late former president Robert Mugabe during his tenure, the family of the strongman should be allowed to have the last word on where he was buried.
The row over the final resting place of Mugabeâs remains has been revived.
A traditional chief in the district where Mugabeâs remains were buried ordered that he be dug up and reburied at the national heroesâ shrine in Harare.
The general-secretary of the Zimbabwe Communist Party, Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena, said his organisation was against having a centralised heroes shrine.