{"id":237295,"date":"2026-06-24T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-former-zambian-presidents-widow-wins-court-battle-to-bury-him-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T16:02:14","slug":"south-africa-former-zambian-presidents-widow-wins-court-battle-to-bury-him-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-former-zambian-presidents-widow-wins-court-battle-to-bury-him-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: Former Zambian President&#8217;s Widow Wins Court Battle to Bury Him in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Esther Lungu and seven family members won their appeal to bury the late former Zambian president at Fourways Memorial Park in Johannesburg, not Lusaka.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The Supreme Court found the Zambian government could not prove Lungu agreed to a State funeral, and ordered it to pay the family&#8217;s legal costs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Esther Lungu has won a major court battle to bury her husband in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Supreme Court of Appeal ruled on Tuesday that the Zambian government had no right to take his remains, because it could&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606240077.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esther Lungu and seven family members won their appeal to bury the late former Zambian president at Fourways Memorial Park in Johannesburg, not Lusaka. The Supreme Court found the Zambian government could not prove Lungu agreed to a State funeral, and ordered it to pay the family&#8217;s legal costs. Esther Lungu has won a major [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237296,"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\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,7887,23782,6185,257,7527,5069,254,11392,6552,881,4396],"class_list":["post-237295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-battle","tag-bury","tag-court","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-widow","tag-wins","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660842:7b58b346feaede645de2d5786eca8fe0:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237295","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=237295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}