Zambian elections: Will Edgar Lungu’s ghost come back to haunt the poll?
An opposition politician, in a whispered conversation, said the Zambian government took brief custody of Lungu’s body on 22 April and likely performed the necessary rituals then (it should be noted that there is no physical proof of this), before a South African court again ordered that the remains should be returned to the family.
Meanwhile, Lungu’s body remains in a mortuary in Pretoria pending further court action, a South African government spokesperson tells The Africa Report.
Soon after his death, as the family prepared to bury Lungu in South Africa, the Zambian government got a court interdict to prevent the burial and repatriate his body.
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