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JERRY MATEBESI: Former President Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Mugabe remains a contested terrain and ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism, writes Jerry Matebesi.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: We can’t airbrush Zuma’s failures from history
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.
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Zim govt denies reports saying Zanu-PF plans to take over Mugabe's properties
On Monday, reports emerged that the former president's Harare mansion could be turned into a museum.
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Reinforced grave, tamper-proof casket: battle for Mugabe's corpse
Robert Mugabe, who died aged 95 at a Singapore hospital on 6 September, was laid to rest 22 days later in a concrete cast grave in the courtyard of his rural Kutama home, 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.
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'Family specifically didn't want Mnangagwa to preside over Mugabe's funeral'
Zimbabwe Independent editor Dumisani Muleya explains why Zimbabwe's late president was only buried over the weekend.
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UPDATE: Zimbabwe's ex-president Mugabe buried in rural village
Hundreds of mourners assembled for the low-key event, which was initially intended to be a private family ceremony.
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Mugabe to be buried today at rural home - family
The country's founding leader died in a Singapore hospital earlier this month, aged 95, almost two years after a military coup ended his nearly four-decade rule.
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Mnangagwa gives go-ahead for Mugabe's body to be moved
There were reports of a brief stand-off between family members and police when the family decided to move Robert Mugabe’s body from his Harare mansion to his rural home in Zvimba ahead of his burial on Saturday.
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Mugabe's body moved to rural home ahead of weekend burial
After weeks of wrangling between government and his family over the final resting place for the country's founding leader, the Mugabes have opted to entomb him at his birthplace and rural home, about 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.
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Mugabe to be buried in his home town within two days
There had been agreement that Robert Mugabe would be buried at National Heroes Acre in Harare in 30 days after his death. However, this changed.
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Malema: Mnangagwa’s government tormented Robert Mugabe until his death
Malema said Mnangagwa’s government hasn't paid the benefits promised the former president.
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Malema visits the Mugabe family to pay his respects
The EFF leader has held a private meeting with Grace Mugabe and other family members at the Blue Roof mansion, where Robert Mugabe’s body is lying in state ahead of his burial next month.
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Mnangagwa reveals Mugabe was being treated for cancer before his death
The cause of death of the 95-year-old hadn’t been confirmed, but even while he was still in power, he was reported to be living with the disease.
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Traditional beliefs, rituals fuel tensions over Mugabe's funeral
Those requests have been part of a dispute over the final burial of Mugabe, who died 6 September almost two years after a coup ended his increasingly autocratic 37-year rule.
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Mbeki reveals UK, US wanted SA to help remove Mugabe from power
Former President Thabo Mbeki said that the British government under Tony Blair even planned to intervene militarily in Zimbabwe but had to abandon this plan as Mugabe enjoyed support from his southern African neighbours.
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In Zimbabwe's crisis, surviving means improvising, and some luck
Filling a tank used to require just a few minutes. Now it takes a day of patience and some ingenuity at the gas station. Even then, success is not guaranteed.
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Robert Mugabe's home village to pay tribute to former leader
Community members in Robert Mugabe’s home village will get their chance to pay tribute to the former statesman, as he lies in state in Zvimba today.
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Mugabe's body heads for wake in home village
Mugabe died a week ago aged 95 in Singapore, nearly two years after he was ousted in a 2017 coup that ended nearly four decades of increasingly autocratic rule.
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Zimbabwe gives late Robert Mugabe a hero's farewell
The late former President Robert Mugabe was given a national hero-style state funeral at the National Sports Stadium in Harare. Despite the many empty seats, nothing was spared for the father of the nation.
