Former Zimbabwe President Robert Gabriel Mugabe will be buried in Zvimba, Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting, Nick Mangwana has revealed.
The government had plans to bury Zimbabwe’s longtime leader in an musoleum in the the capital city Harare.
“The family of the late former President R. G. Mugabe has expressed its desire to proceed with his burial in Zvimba. In line with Government policy to respect the wishes of families of deceased heroes, Government is cooperating with the Mugabe family in their new position,” Mangwana says in a press release.
“Government will render all the necessary support to give the late former President a fitting burial as led by the family.”
Mugabe managed to promote the land reform program which resulted in black people taking away farms from white farmers, a process which the current President Emmerson Mnangagwa calls irreversible.
The former President’s policy of indigenisation which was meant to empower the black majority people.
“As Zimbabwe, we shall ride on the education and high literacy levels bequeathed to us by our late great teacher and educator,” President Mnangagwa described Mugabe’s education policy which led Zimbabwe to be the most literate country in Africa at of 90% literacy rate.
“As Africa boldly operationalises the African Continental Free Trade Area, let us be emboldened by the ideals of the late Cde Mugabe, who was one of the consistent champions of African Unity, industrialisation, intra-Africa trade, as well as regional and continental integration,” Mnangagwa said.
Mugabe, however, left Zimbabwe an isolated country, sanctioned by western countries for human right violations. Sanctions have arguably led to economic challenges in the African country.
The country also witnessed foreign investors leaving the country amid the controversial indigenisation policy which required a 49/50% profit sharing between international investors and locals in Zimbabwe.