Mugabe's body arrives at 'Blue Roof' compound
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- (11 Sep 2019) The body of longtime ruler Robert Mugabe arrived Wednesday at the family's home in the Borrowdale suburb of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.
The former leader's body was met earlier by Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and a full military delegation before being taken to nearby military barracks for prayers.
Mugabe, who died at 95 in a hospital in Singapore on Friday, was a guerrilla leader who led the fight to end white-minority rule in what was then Rhodesia, and ruled Zimbabwe from its independence in 1980 until he was deposed in 2017.
During his 37-year authoritarian leadership, Zimbabwe descended from prosperity to economic crisis marked by hyperinflation, unemployment and a drastic drop in living conditions for its 16 million people.
The body will be displayed at historic locations for several days before burial at a site that is still unannounced, indicating friction between the ex-leader's family and the government.
Leo Mugabe, Mugabe's nephew and the family's spokesman, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that relations are good between the family and Mnangagwa, but he would not disclose where Mugabe would be buried.
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Soldiers are so tired of lifting up this coffin up and down why or shame
No one lives forever in ths earth ???
Even Mandela the great man didn't waste money on his funeral like this. Shame on us Zimbos
It's the governments fault they should have respected his wish for private family only burial in the village political scavengers.
When will they bury a dead human being?
This is a waste of resources
People of Zimbabwe has been punished by Mugabe and also now still punished by a dead body
Waste