The construction of a mausoleum where the late President Robert Mugabe’s remains were supposed to be reburied at the national shrine is now complete.
The Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader died aged 95 while receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore in 2019.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe ( 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.
