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Lungu’s family granted leave to appeal high court judgment ordering his repatriation and burial in Zambia | SA News

The Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) has granted the family of the late former Zambian president Edgar Lungu leave to appeal a high court judgement that granted the Zambian government the order to repatriate his body to his country for burial.

Lungu died on June 5 after suffering cardiac complications from a surgery at Mediclinic Medforum Hospital in Pretoria.

The high court halted plans for Lungu to be buried in Johannesburg on June 25, hours before a private ceremony arranged by the family was due to start.

Lungu’s family wants him to be buried in South Africa, citing it was his last wish, while the Zambian government maintains he should be given a state funeral and buried at a designated…

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