LUNGU FAMILY TURNS TO SOUTH AFRICA CONCOURT
By Darius Choonya, Pretoria, South Africa
Former President Edgar Lungu’s family has approached the Constitutional Court of South Africa, seeking an ordper to overturn the lower court’s decision to repatriate his body for a state funeral in Zambia.
In an affidavit, former First Lady Esther Lungu argued that no one should be compelled to bury their loved one in accordance with the dictates of the state.
On August 8, 2025, the Lungu family filed an application for leave to appeal the Pretoria High Court judgment that ordered Mr. Lungu’s repatriation.
Earlier, when the matter came up for hearing, the Lungu family, through their lawyer Tembeka Ngcukaitobi SC, informed the Pretoria High Court that they were in talks with the Zambian government regarding the repatriation of the former President’s body for a state funeral in Zambia.
Mr. Ngcukaitobi said both the Lungu family and the Zambian government had agreed to postpone the leave-to-appeal application to Monday, August 18, 2025, to allow discussions to proceed.
He added that the court would be informed if the talks succeeded.
The Pretoria High Court has since set Monday August 18, 2025 for the hearing, expressing hope that the matter will be resolved in the interest of all parties.
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The Rasta Loya is a crook.Anyway it’s up to the family if it takes one or two years.we have nothing to lose.
The guy is a good lawyer and a very objective young man. He has handled many serious cases than this circus you have.He is a decent man.The problem is the case here.It does not need such reinforcement but for the family to be reasonable.
It’s not a question of a good lawyer. It’s about the merits of the case case you are putting forward. The case is not restarting it will be argued based on matters that are on record as argued in court. Also the matter is not going to the constitutional court but the appeal court and what’s going to be argued on Monday is the Leave appeal. I am sure you can see the level of desperation from the Muzungu Wamu Koboni story.
We have a family w been which is unreasonable here but if you think about it, they could be something they are scared of…
These insinuations coming out may hold true…
As a country, we do have a right to demand that we verify who is lying in that coffin and bring him back home…
Mourning in perpetuity!
That leave of appeal filed by the Lungu family to be handled by thosePretoria high court judges would not have been granted.
The words of that judge today exposed the line of thinking of the Pretoria High Court Judges.. They are blind to law , and to facts.
The new lawyer knew this, and of course I know that too.
Skip the comprosed judges and straight away go to the Constitutional Court.
That’s the game when you are dealing with compromised courts
If you are summoned in Court to prove with irrefutable evidence how these Judges have been “compromised”, I am sure you will just cry like a Baby in wet Napkins and as usual claim political persecution!
The body has already been buried.
Or cremated.
My suspicion.
Macabre hinted at this in a video. But the Lungu family should say so instead of letting the government go on a wild chase.
Makebi is misleading these grade 3 women, yet he knows that they are blind and not that intelligent. It’s very wrong what he is doing
Rasta man live up! Bongo man don’t give up! Bingy man live up!
True story, for once I side with you. Long live Rasta man. Jah Holy on the Jamaican beach. Emancipation within reach.
State taken for ride again, sad.
SA courts may not have jurisdiction over a dead alien who came for medical reasons, let alone a president or former president.
They have failed to negotiate for them to write to the supreme court?????? Is this the settlement you were talking?????I don’t believe on this issues.
The Constitutional Court of South Africa is primarily there to interpret, protect and enforce the Constitution of South Africa.
I don’t think that Court would entertain unfinished case that is in the high court.The appeal case was halted by the two parties after the reason of talks was decided.The ECL family was ordered to allow for the repatriation of the ECL body to Zambia for burial.The appeal case must be heard first before it can be taken to the higher Court like the Constitutional Court of South Africa.This case involves the Zambian government seeking to bury it’s former Head of state, with Zambian tradition at a Presidential burial site who unfortunately died in that foreign country after failed medical treatment he went to seek.The rights of a Zambian government on it’s Zambian citizen who is a former President especially, can’t go for interpretation in the Constitutional Court of another country.ECL was just a “muzamai” in that country muzamai is a visitor in Lozi language.Otherwise in Afrikaans and Xhosa they have different words they use for a visitor word.ECL was Zambian and his body must come to Zambia.
When mysterious Lungu announced his plan “B” many in PF celebrated actually the whole PF celebrated even though none of them knew what that plan “B” was, when they were asked what that plan was, all insisted that they did not know because he did not reveal it to anyone, but they went ahead to celebrate it anywhere. Now having celebrated what they did not know, what if it turns out that, that plan was actually his personal plan and not the party plan, how will they now look. PF has been bombarding itself with one lie after the other, recently they claimed “why me” was killed and now they are eating their own vomit, they have been claiming a death of “why me” without viewing the body, something that is now like tradition in PF.
The Judge was anticipatory when he said “Let us hope it is actually light at the end of the tunnel and not the actual train” now it tuns out that the Lungu family actually stationed a Train behind that light with a view to surprise the court just like they have been doing all along, question is why have they betted with their lives over the viewing of a body if it is just a body, is there something that we are actually not seeing?, is there something that they are hiding?. All this cannot just be coincidence, it is now coming out like a well-orchestrated plan that may have been charted way back. But what goes up will surely come down at a particular point in time.