Mugabe rejects Heroes' Acre burial

Former President Robert Mugabe, the architect of the National Heroes’ Acre Monument, has told his family members that he does not want to be buried at the North Korean-style shrine in Harare. Family sources told the Zimbabwe Independent that Mugabe, who has been bedridden in Singapore for the past three months, has said he did not want the current Zanu-PF Government to preside over his funeral. Mugabe said he wanted to be buried next to his mother Bona at his rural home in Zvimba, Mashonaland West Province. In order to institutionalise Zimbabwe’s history and enshrine the memory of the liberation struggle, Mugabe built the Heroes’ Acre in 1981. The shrine, before its desecration by the burial of controversial personalities, had come to symbolise sacrifice, bravery and selflessness which characterised the liberation struggle.