This archive report was first published on 30 September 2019.
Robert Mugabe, the former President of Zimbabwe, was finally laid to rest on Saturday in his rural village of Kutama, where he was born.
The 95-year-old was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, a village located 55 miles west of Harare, the country's capital.
Mugabe passed away in a Singaporean hospital on September 6th, nearly two years after he was ousted from power in a bloodless military coup, ending his 37-year rule.
His family had rejected the government's plan to inter him at the Heroes Acre, an exclusive hilltop shrine for Zimbabwe's ruling elite, and instead chose a private burial in Kutama.
On Saturday, hundreds of mourners attended a pre-burial service in Kutama, but no senior government officials were present.
According to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Mugabe's doctors had stopped his chemotherapy treatment due to his age and the spread of cancer, which was no longer helping.
“Treatment had stopped, doctors had stopped treatment, chemotherapy, one, because of age and also because cancer had spread and it was not helping anymore,” Mnangagwa said, as quoted by Herald.
Earlier, Mugabe's State funeral was held at the national stadium in Harare on September 14th, attended by several dignitaries, including Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
