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A ROW has broken out between the Zimbabwean government and the family of former president Robert Mugabe over the arrangements for his funeral.
Mr Mugabe died aged 95 last week in Singapore. His body is being prepared to lie in state at a football stadium in the Zimbabwean capital Harare.
But the family are at loggerheads with the government over his final resting place.
They said in a statement that they were angry that plans were made “without consulting his immediate family who were tasked with communicating his last wishes in regard to his funeral and burial.”
President Emmerson Mnangagwa had declared Mr Mugabe a national hero after his death, indicating he should be buried at the national monument.
But his nephew Leo Mugabe said: “His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night … followed by a private burial — either Monday or Tuesday — no National Heroes Acre [the national monument for liberation heroes]. That’s the decision of the whole family.”
