government request: Only approved guests and funeral parlor vans were allowed, a decision out of sync with the local tradition that funerals are free for all to attend, according to The Japan Times. One elderly neighbor threw a tantrum after being blocked at the gate. ; Mugabe's family earlier had agreed to a government request to bury him at a shrine in the capital but only after a hilltop mausoleum was built to set him apart from former comrades. A highly private farewell was planned for one of Africa's most divisive figures after a weeks-long family dispute with the administration that forced him from power. But on Thursday the government abruptly announced the family had changed its mind, leaving it with scaffolding around the partially completed memorial. In a statement, Moyo added that we indeed respect the wishes of families of deceased heroes, hence we are saddened when maneuvers that border on political gimmicks begin to unfold on an issue concerning an illustrious liberation icon. Simon Khaya Moyo, a spokesman for the ruling ZANU-PF party, called the private burial most unfortunate.
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