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Grace ordered to pay for Mugabe's 'improper burial' in livestock
Former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe who has been summoned by a traditional court to answer to charges of “inappropriately” burying former president Robert Mugabe.
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What you need to know:
- The former first lady is accused of burying her husband, who died in 2019 at the age of 95, in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, some 90 kilometres (56 miles) west of the capital Harare.
- The current president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, would like for Mugabe to be interred in the National Heroes Acre burial ground and national monument near Harare.
The widow of former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been ordered by a traditional court to give away five cows and two goats for improperly burying her husband, the family said late Thursday night.
The court, which cannot compel the accused but whose decisions have a strong symbolic impact, met on Thursday morning in the absence of Grace Mugabe, according to a source close to the family.
