THE South African Government says it will allow the family of the late former President Edgar Lungu to proceed with their burial wishes.
Department of International Relations and Cooperation spokesperson Chrispin Phiri said the South African Government has no choice but to respect the family’s decision to have the former president laid to rest in South Africa.
“And that was precisely the purpose of Minister Ronald Ozzy Lamola’s visit to Lusaka, to firstly share the country’s condolences on the passing of President Lungu, and also to say that South Africa does acknowledge the importance of a nation burying its former president,” he said.
Mr Phiri said the South African Government is legally bound to follow what the family requires.
“But this also comes on the back of us having legal obligations to honour the family’s wishes, as they are resident in South Africa,” Mr Phiri said.
He, however, said the move should not be seen as disrespectful to the wishes of the Zambian Government.
“It should not be seen in any way as us not wishing to respect the Zambian Government’s wishes or as being disrespectful to the Zambian nation as well,” Mr Phiri said.
(Mwebantu, Monday, 23rd June, 2025)
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Let this overdue burial just take place wherever on this Planet, so that we get on with our lives, before we also die, all of us have an expiry date. We are just simply fatigued for no good reason. Does it really matter to a dead person where his corpse is buried? Death is only relevant to the Living not the Dead.
Yah, we have tried our best to persuade the Lungu family to understand the issue concerning the burial of our sixth President who died in South Africa.And they have insisted on burying that side.The bad thing is the family failed to separate it self from the PF fuction.The PF have never allowed HH from attending a funeral with them. This is a historical thing. HH attended Dr Kaunda’s funeral through television.This time around they are at it again with flimsy accusations.This is not strange at all.Their hate for HH is a well known thing by all Zambians.The old habits die hard.They can even let go the tradition of sending off a former head of state in a diginified manner.ECL knew that at his level must he die the full honours would be offered for send off. They will deny him that right.
There you go with your blatant lies.
The request from the family was simple and clear. KEEP HAKAINDE FAR AWAY FROM THE BODY. The state agreed to this, only to try imingalato at the last minute, including Hakainde to oversee the arrival of the body at KKIA, and to take the body to a Church not sanctioned by the family.
Learn to tell the truth my brother. Your Hakainde is the one at fault here. Now that he has dug his grave, let him lie in it.
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There is no honour in Useless Imingalato
The destiny of the Mingalatoon is a fall from all grace
It’s embarrassment ….
You abuse some one in Life
Deny him all for his life
Then you want to show love to his corpse
To caress his remains
And you call that dignity
There is no dignity in Hypocrisy
In Dishonesty and Untruthfulness
In Insincerity
How the proud have been shamed
To forever walk the earth in shame
Those who abuse the living
To Reap and Rip off the dead
The empty speeches
Those hollow words
Away from my own and mine
Not for my ears
To the dustbin they belong
Rest in Peace ECL
Far you are, but yet so near
For the soil you walked
Waits for your time
You will be home!
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My friend, I wasted my vote on Hakainde in 2021, and I truly pray I could get a refund. Never in a million years would I vote for him or anyone like him. I thought KK was crazy when he warned us, but now I know what a wise man KK was. Thank God Hakainde did not attend his funeral. And thank God, again, that he will not attend ECL’s funeral. He will attend his own.
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By focusing on getting back at one person, ECL’s family & the PF have deprived the whole nation of proper closure with regard to his death.