ZANU-PF has title to previous President Robert Mugabe's homes — the impressive Blue Rooftop house in Borrowdale and a Mount Wonderful property involved by his little girl, Bona, subtleties have developed. Mugabe family representative Mr Leo Mugabe affirmed yesterday that Zimbabwe's late establishing dad didn't claim the houses. President Mnangagwa is currently taking a shot at modalities to move the title deeds of the two houses to Cde Mugabe's family. Tending to columnists in Zvimba yesterday, Mr Mugabe stated: "The issue of properties is being dealt with by the President. He is dealing with the issue to guarantee the family is protected. "I was told by President Mnangagwa that the gathering will move the title deeds of t
It’s been an appropriately fractured, uneasy week in Zimbabwe. As the country has tried to deal with the long-anticipated death of its loved and loathed founding father, Robert Mugabe, the nation has experienced an unsettling and contradictory jumble of deep reverence, nostalgia, indifference, hypocrisy and anger, combined with an almost soap-opera quantity of plot twists. At the heart of those contradictions and twists, sits the enigmatic and widely reviled Grace Mugabe – the grieving widow, her face now hidden beneath a dark veil, a woman whose fortunes, over the decades, have revealed so much about how power really works in Zimbabwe. She was the secretary who married the president, who then became infamous for her lavish shopping sprees and fiery temper. Grace earne
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The late former President Cde Robert Mugabe will be buried at the national heroes acre on a date to be announced. This was said by the Mugabe family spokesperson Mr Leo Mugabe in an interview with Zimpapers Television Network at the Blue Roof mansion this morning. “The family and the tradional leaders have pronounced that he will be buried at the National Heroes Acre…as to when he will be buried there are things that the chiefs want done at the national heroes acre and those will take time. “I would also want to dispel the rumours that have been doing the rounds that the chiefs were paid, they were not paid. It’s all absolute nonsense, they were not paid. When we visited the President I was with them. It was merely meant to go and thank the Government for
reports that Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe will be buried early next week in his village and not at a national monument for liberation heroes, his family said on Thursday. The family of Mugabe, who died in Singapore last week, and Zimbabwe’s government have been at odds over whether he would be buried in his homestead in Kutama, northwest of Harare, or at the National Heroes Acre in the capital.His body will lie in state at Kutama on Sunday night.., followed by a private burial – either Monday or Tuesday – no National Heroes Acre. That’s the decision of the whole family,” his nephew Leo Mugabe told AFP. Mugabe, whose autocratic rule ended in a military coup in 2017, died last week aged 95. His body was flown back from Singapore on Wednesd
Eleven Heads of State and eight former Presidents from various African countries have so far confirmed their attendance at the late former President Robert Mugabe’s State funeral service set for Saturday. Deputy Chief Secretary to the President and Cabinet in charge of Presidential Communications, Mr George Charamba confirmed the list of the Heads of State that will attend the ceremony in a statement this afternoon. The 11 are Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, DRC’S Felix Tshisekedi, Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, Malawi’s Arthur Peter Mutharika, Angola’s Joao Laurenco, Saharawi’s Brahim Ghali, South Africa’s Cyril Rhamaphosa, Mozambique’s Felipe Nyusi, Zambia’s Edgar Lungu, Namibia’s Hage Geingob
ven in death, former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe remains an Achilles’ heel for his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa’s legitimacy. Since 1977, Mnangagwa has been on Mugabe’s side – first as his assistant, then as a body guard and then as a trusted minister from 1980, only to leave cabinet between 2000 and 2005, when he lost in parliamentary elections. Still, Mugabe kept him on the political radar as speaker of parliament, despite Mnangagwa plotting with Jonathan Moyo to effect “leadership change” in the Zanu-PF that would have resulted in a palace coup to remove Mugabe through the infamous Dinyane Declaration in Tsholotsho, Matabeleland North. Despite spending all these years as allies, in his last days in office last year, Mugabe passed a vote of
The body of Zimbabwe’s founder Robert Mugabe arrived at the country’s main airport on Wednesday but his final resting place remains a source of mystery amid a dispute between some family members and the government. Mugabe, one of the last “Big Men” of African politics who ruled the southern African nation for 37 years until he was ousted by his own army in November 2017, died in a Singapore hospital five days ago. He is proving as polarising in death as he was in life, as the fight over where he will be buried threatens to embarrass his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, and deepen divisions in the ruling ZANU-PF party. The former president’s body arrived at Harare’s Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport shortly at 15:00hrs. Crowds h
President Mnangagwa yesterday hurriedly summoned a section of members of Mugabe family at his Munhumutapa Offices where he is reported to have tried to get the group to convince the greater part of the family to allow him to lead the burial of the late former head of state Robert Mugabe. Speaking at national hero Major-General Mugoba’s residence in Harare yesterday where he had gone to pay condolences, President Mnangagwa disclosed that he had met with the members of the family and chiefs ahead of the arrival of Mugabe’s body today in the afternoon. "I am just coming from a meeting with traditional leaders from Zvimba,” he said. “They wanted to express their gratitude with the support Government rendered to our founding President from the time he has been u
President Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s final resting place has been topical since he sadly passed away on 6th September 2019. Charlatans who are seeking to hijack President Mugabe’s legacy for their own selfish reasons have been fueling this speculation for several weeks. Unfortunately, hijacking President Mugabe’s legacy for expediency will only provide transient relief to such grave robbers. One of President Mugabe most important, but yet to be fully acknowledged legacy resides in his direct off-spring; his children and grand-children. I know that President Mugabe was eternally grateful to his wife, Amai Grace Mugabe, for providing him with the opportunity to have his legacy live on through his children and grand-children. Makaita basa Mwenewazvo. Speculation around
