Battle over Mugabe remains in new twist

FORMER President Robert Mugabe’s children Bona, Tinotenda and Chatunga have scored a major legal victory after magistrate Kudzanai Mahaso barred a Zvimba headman from conducting an inspection of the late leader’s grave as part of a legal bid to exhume his remains.

Headman Tinos Manongovere had applied to the magistrate for an inspection in loco at the gravesite where Mugabe’s remains are buried.

Mugabe’s children opposed the application and the court, by consent of the parties, conducted an inspection in loco at the gravesites in Kutama village, where other Mugabe family members were buried.

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