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President of Zambia in row with predecessor's family over his funeral
The Guardian
|August 19, 2025
A row over whether the Zambian president, Hakainde Hichilema, will preside over the funeral of his predecessor, Edgar Lungu, is raging, as the deceased's family wages a legal battle in South Africa to try to stop his body from being repatriated to Zambia.
The legal fight is the latest twist in a feud between the two men that goes back at least a decade and has now outlasted the former president, who died in South Africa in June aged 68 while being treated for an undisclosed illness.
Mourners had already arrived at the funeral in Johannesburg in June when it was halted by a high court judge, after an 11th-hour request by Zambia's attorney general, Mulilo Kabesha. Lungu's family said he specifically requested that Hichilema not attend his funeral.
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