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Bitter anniversary in Zimbabwe a year after Mugabe died
Robert Mugabe died on 6 September last year, aged 95 in a Singapore hospital, two years after he was forced to resign in 2017, and after 37 years in power.
Last month, Zimbabwe agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to local white farmers whose land was forcibly taken by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.
In an affidavit, businessman Robert Zhuwao, the son of the late Robert Mugabe's younger sister Sabina, protested that the land ministry revoked his title to the 233-hectare "on the basis of a false allegation."
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The government-owned 'Herald' newspaper said Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona Chikowore wrote in October, the month after her father’s death, to the High Court seeking to register the estate.
State media said the estate was registered by Mugabe’s eldest daughter Bona Chikore in October, a month after her father died.
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.
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.
On Monday, reports emerged that the former president's Harare mansion could be turned into a museum.
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.
Zimbabwe Independent editor Dumisani Muleya explains why Zimbabwe's late president was only buried over the weekend.
Hundreds of mourners assembled for the low-key event, which was initially intended to be a private family ceremony.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Malema said Mnangagwa’s government hasn't paid the benefits promised the former president.
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.