PRETORIA HIGH COURT DISMISSES LUNGU FAMILY APPEAL BID WITH COSTS
The Pretoria High Court has dismissed, with costs, the Lungu family’s bid for leave to appeal.
The application sought to overturn an earlier court decision that ordered the repatriation of former President Edgar Lungu’s body to Zambia for a state funeral following his death on June 5, 2025.
In its ruling, the court says it is satisfied that no compelling reasons existed to grant leave to appeal, noting that the matter was so fact-specific that there was little to no prospect of a similar case arising in future.
The court has further ruled that there was no reason why costs should not follow.
The Lungu family had argued that the court failed to respect their wishes in its decision to repatriate the body.
Meanwhile, as the ruling was being delivered, the Zambian government and the Lungu family had already begun fresh talks to resolve the impasse over the burial site.
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Truly sad and emotional to both the Zambian people and more so to the Lungu family. If we could rewind time it would have been good to have had a level headed approach with regard to this matter from the beginning. We wouldn’t be standing where we are now.
To bad, what a sad ending..l hope the family abandon the corpse.
And what happens when they do that?You are an Idiot without peace of mind.Where there is chaos you are happy,what a d!ch head.How can the family abandon the corpse as if he is coming back from death.Hatred will take you to an early grave
That’s the cost of arrogance. The family followed a chancer. They now have to pay him and the other Lawyers too. Let’s see how this young man will walk the streets of Lusaka. He has caused the country shame and pain. Hope he doesn’t even come back.
Blame Makebi Zulu
This is what has been expected to happen.No any other way.Lets just prepare ourselves for that moment of send off with dignity.We give our last respect.
Mama Esther Lungu, you are a strong woman..and together with the Children.
Your late Husband is watching over you with Pride. You said no to Hopeless Hypocrites and Crocodile Tears being near the remains of your Husband…to the point of your own poverty.
And I tell you, when you get that legal Bill , don’t despair. The cost of your pain and grief can’t be compared..it’s immeasurable . You have Suffered ba mama..
Most of us will be willing to contribute to the Legal fees.
They can have their day…
Let the Man have the remains..And if he now says that he will delegate his role, he won’t be forgiven. Let him get the Corpse.
Let him be the first one to do body viewing…and to touch the remains to prove that indeed it’s Dr Edgar Chagwa Lungu who passed away on 5th June, 2025…..and let him be with the shovel to bury the 6th President. What a man!
Someone who can take a grieving Widow to Court on day of Burial is a Bizarre Species of homo Sapiens..a Sub species very rare in all ages.
You just have no brains arsewhore! Esther and Makobili Zulu have just met their waterloo after their stiff necked arrogance. Any sensible people, which you Nkuku can never be, could tell that Esther and Makebii were up to no good. Even the South African law they were courting could not save them.
The judges earlier read the situation correctly but in their usual arrogance, Makebi and Esther decided to overlook everyone else and went straight to the SA Concourt which threw heir case out.
Makebi has no shame and doesn’t even have the best interests of the Lungu family but his own ego and fame. It shows how shallow minded he is. How is he going to face the same justice system he has been trashing while in SA.
As for you chicken man, just keep quiet and hide your ignorance for once. Whenever you open you “mouth” you just expose your ignorance and stupidity!
@chilyata
Chakubaba?
You can’t get me out of the race dumbnut.
My 0.0000000000000000001% of my brain is Infinity compared to yours, useless Praise Idiot.
You are not in my League.
Do you even belong to any league asshole? League of stolen money!You are just an imbecile still dreaming of pf coming back. Possibly a Tanzanian like Muamba/Mwamba.You are just a sick piece of Sh!t. If thats the same brain you use to think everyday, you won’t make it in the real world
KKK! Of course I am not in your league of PF mother fuckers, no brainers and losers. It is you that was supporting foolishness and just lost the case! There is no treatment for foolishness Mr Checkenman, try Chainama.
It’s empty heads like you who cause such divisions in the country. These people together with ECL stole from poor Zambians. God refused that they go hide the loot outside Zambia. Just like Ahab and Jezebel, God prevailed and they died with no dignity for their sins. This has happened now in Zambia. Jezebel marshalled lawyers to fight God and she has lamentably failed because you don’t win against the Lord.
Here comes Nkuku man praising Jezebel. Mulepepa nokupepa.
KKKKK! Spot on bro. The Chicken man has tiny brains and behaves exactly like all chickens do, no vision!
One hundred, just ignore our friends from Zambezi and their insults. They have immunity to insult at will. It is their time. We will pick them up after the conman is fired.
REJECT TRIBALISM, CORRUPTION AND OPPRESSION.
VOTE FOR CHANGE IN 2026.
@Twalumba
Useless Praise Idiot.
Who has caused divisions in this Country , useless Praise Idiot?
Who abrogated the 14th June, 2025 Agreement between the Lungu family and the government?
Who started changing goal posts infusing things which were not in the agreement ?
The Courts have given him the Remains of the Sixth President against the wishes of the family..
Let him give the empty and hollow speeches, the Hopeless Hypocrisy and Crocodile Tears, the Hollow Dignity he believes in…
But we see through him, and know who he is ..
Madam Esther Lungu, May God Bless you…and when you come back to Zambia, You will be received by the faithful.Those who have been with you during the 90 days your late husband has been in the Morgue…you are a hero in our hearts.
May the Soul of your late Husband Rest in PEACE.
KKK! Who says Esther is coming back when she made it clear that she wants to stay in South Africa. Let her enjoy the money they looted from the long poor suffering Zambian Souls like Chicken man!
Hundred Fimo Fimo
These are the same emotional lies and enuendoes that forced the state and HH in particular to seek court intervention.If HH had accepted for Lungu to be buried in a secret grave,he would have accepted to carry the guilt that the.family unfairly tried to lump on him for the rest of his life
Lungu was a”top notch”lawyer who knew exactly what the law prescribes when he voluntarily chose to return to active politics
No one striped him of his presidential benefits but himself.Please drill that fact in your head
The problem is with the zambian government, they are tolerating this lungu family too much,if the courts has ruled that the body must be repatriated why waisting time negotiating with the family that doesn’t want to comply again, this family want to humble the government by forcing it to move in their direction but our government is blind and sleeping, upnd government sometimes it is a let down, how do you prolong the issue when the court is in your side we are tired of this lungu funeral can you act now and bring the dead body back for burial
Absolutely right! The Govt is dragging its feet when thee ball is their hands now. They need to move fast and take the body home for a decent burial and funeral. Esther temunobe and will keep dragging everybody in her senseless fights with Govt. She just wants to stay in SA to run away from the courts f Zambia for the money she stole with her entire family!
The comments using strong language are uncalled for. There is no reason to hurl insults at one another. The court has ruled and the Lungu family can appeal if they want to.
Personally, I would prefer he is buried and remains buried in South Africa. There should be no reburial in Zambia whatsoever. It is unfair to subject the whole country to the whims of the Lungu family. We bury him once and he stays there until the resurrection.
Those commenting on this issue must mind their language. This is not a matter of winning or losing. It is about doing the right thing.
It’s one loss after another. The government should not even sit down to negotiate with the family now since it has become clear their options are falling off one by one and eventually after all the appeals have been exhausted they will be compelled to release the corpse to the zambian government to be brought back to zambia leaving the family with huge legal fees for both lawyers. Let them just come back and finish burying so that we can get on with all the cases that are still pending in court.