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By Bulawayo Correspondent
OUTSPOKEN former minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Tshinga Dube has defended late former President Robert Mugabe’s family for burying the once fierce ruler at his rural home in Zvimba.
Addressing journalists at the Bulawayo Press Club on Africa Day, the ex-Makokoba legislator and one time Mugabe minister said his former boss died a bitter man.
Mugabe died September 2019, almost two years after he was dethroned in a military assisted coup masterminded by his one-time deputy and incumbent leader Emmerson Mnangagwa.
Following his death, spirited attempts by government to bury him at the National Heroes Acre came a cropper as his family insisted on fulfilling the late leader’s bedside wishes of being buried in his rural home.
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A relative of the late former President Robert Mugabe says a traditional leader, who wants his remains to be exhumed and reburied at the National Heroes Acre, boycotted the funeral in Zvimba communal lands in 2019 as he was pushing for the burial to be conducted at a mausoleum set up at the shrine.
In an exclusive interview, Mugabe’s nephew, Leo Mugabe, said Chief Zvimba was among several people who wanted the late Zimbabwean leader to be laid to rest at the heroes’ acre.
“They (Zvimba and others) were the ones who were pushing for the Heroes Acre. You see! They are the ones that were pushing for the Heroes Acre, and the immediate family was saying ‘no we must follow the late president’s wish’. You can not bury him at the Heroes Acre against his wish. So that is where it originates from. At the actual funeral, Chief Zvimba did not attend. He did not attend. So he wants to be relevant, to be seen to be attending the one that he had wanted to happen.”