AdvertisementA priest asked God to take pity on Robert Mugabe as the family of the longtime Zimbabwean leader buried him Saturday at his rural home. Mugabe's widow Grace and his children accompanied the casket - drapped in Zimbabwe's green, yellow, red and black flag. The Mugabe family decided to bury Zimbabwe's founding father in Kutama after weeks of wrangling with the government, who wanted the body to rest at the National Heroes Acre in Harare. Former guerrilla leader Mugabe took power after independence from white minority rule in 1980. Many in Mugabe's family are bitter over his ouster and the role played by his deputy and successor Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was elected president in 2018.

Source: Daily Mail September 28, 2019 21:22 UTC