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By Own Correspondent| ZANU PF leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has suffered a major loss after it emerged there won’t be any burial of the former President Robert Mugabe on Sunday.
Since Mugabe’s death last week, Mnangagwa has been fighting to seize his late boss’ corpse, in what is believed will legitimise his Presidency. For this reason he went into meetings on Thursday afternoon seeking to change the funeral program.
There emerged several twists and turns thus, with Mnangagwa winning at least a ceremonial burial on Sunday. But scores of ZimEye readers complained saying that is just a squander of taxpayer resources.
Speaking to journalists at the Mugabe family’s Blue Roof residence later on Friday night, the late ZANU PF legend’s nephew, Leo, said “our ZimEye I’m sure, they are distorting things that we are talking about, but I understand why…cause there is some various misunderstanding arising out of the function that was supposed to happen on Sunday.
“And on my trying to understand, from the questions that you asked me, I then took those questions forward to try and understand exactly what that is supposed to achieve. Eeeeh, and now I have a bit more clarity, that there is no-oooooooo, Heroes on Sunday. Okay?
“And the fact that, the chief and traditional leaders went to the heroes acre to show each other President Mugabe is going to be buried, the place will take about 30 days to be complete, so, what that means is the burial will take that long. The actual burial. So I thought I must make that clarification so that everybody…”