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South Africa judge halts Lungu’s burial amid Zambia dispute

June 25, 2025
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South Africa judge halts Lungu’s burial amid Zambia dispute
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A South African judge on Wednesday halted the burial of former Zambian President Edgar Lungu mid-funeral, intensifying a legal and political dispute between his family and the Zambian government over the handling of his final rites.

Lungu, who died on June 5 while seeking medical care in South Africa, was a rival of President Hakainde Hichilema, who wanted to lead a state funeral for his predecessor in Zambia.

Lungu’s family opposed the plans and blocked his body from being repatriated, saying he would not have wanted Hichilema at his funeral. Zambia in turn filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the burial in South Africa.

In a ruling delivered as Lungu’s widow and other mourners were already gathered in the church, a Gauteng region High Court judge said that, after an agreement between the parties, “respondents undertake not to proceed with the funeral or burial of the late president”.

The case will be heard on August 4, he said, in a decision that was carried by national broadcaster SABC — which also showed live images of people gathered for the service for Lungu, president from 2015 to 2021.

The adjournment “is extending the pain, the grief, that the family and the people are going through”, Zambian lawmaker Chanda Katotobwe, part of the delegation present at the memorial service, told SABC News.

The cause of the former president’s death at age 68 was not announced. He had been receiving specialised treatment in a clinic in Pretoria, his Patriotic Front party said.

 

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