Robert Mugabe gets his final wish: No hero’s burial
By DW
28 September 2019 |
3:52 pm
Zimbabwe's heroes have traditionally been buried at Harare's National Heroes Acre. But after much wrangling between the government and Robert Mugabe's family, the former leader is now set to be buried at his rural home.
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