A private jet departed from Singapore’s international airport in the direction of southern Africa on Wednesday morning, according toEarlier, a police motorcade escorted vehicles to the airport from the Singapore Casket, a funeral parlor where Mugabe’s body was being held.ReutersMugabe died on Friday aged 95 in Singapore, where he had long received medical treatment.
Revered by many as a liberator who freed his people from white minority rule, Mugabe was vilified by others for wrecking one of Africa’s most promising economies and ruthlessly crushing his opponents. Mugabe’s family is pushing back against the government’s plan to bury him at the National Heroes Acre monument in the Zimbabwe capital Harare and wants him to be interred in his home village, relatives have told