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Former sixth Zambian President Edgar Lungu family has barred President Hakainde Hichilema from attending President Lungu’s funeral.<\/p>\n
In a statement read on behalf of the family from Johannesburg, South Africa, where the former president died on June 5, they said it was the late president’s wish that the present president should not come anywhere near his body.<\/p>\n
The family said his wish was that “Mortal remains be conveyed by the family privately and not the government of the Republic of Zambia,” and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Former sixth Zambian President Edgar Lungu family has barred President Hakainde Hichilema from attending President Lungu’s funeral. In a statement read on behalf of the family from Johannesburg, South Africa, where the former president died on June 5, they said it was the late president’s wish that the present president should not come anywhere near […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670543:ab81a62ef5acea45744233fe368d7aa3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7999,7945,8524,257,2450,254,881,4396],"class_list":["post-200079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-barred","tag-funeral","tag-lungus","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670543:ab81a62ef5acea45744233fe368d7aa3:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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