by MTHULISI SIBANDA
PRETORIA, (CAJ News) – ZAMBIANS must wait longer to know where their former president, Edgar Lungu, will be buried.
This after the Pretoria High Court on Monday adjourned Lungu’s repatriation order appeal case indefinitely.
Thus the court deferred Lungu repatriation order which was appealed.
Lungu’s family, led by his widow, Esther (née Nyawa), filed an application for leave to appeal to the South African Constitutional Court to hear the matter.
This leaves the deceased’s family as the sole custodians of the late former president’s remains until a final determination is made.
On June 5, Zambia’s sixth president, from 2015 to 2021, Lungu died in South Africa where he was seeking medical treatment.
He was 68.
His rivalry with his successor, Hakainde Hichilema, has triggered a standoff over his burial.
Lungu’s family seeks to bury him in South Africa but the government has appealed to South African courts for his repatriation and burial at a site reserved for former presidents.
– CAJ News