Zambia accepts SCA ruling in Edgar Lungu burial dispute

The Zambian government says although it disagrees with the South African Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment, it will not pursue the matter any further.

For more than a year, the Zambian government had been locked in a legal dispute with the family of former president Edgar Lungu over the burial of his remains.

Negotiations between the two parties collapsed after the government was unable to honour Lungu’s reported final wish that current president Hakainde Hichilema neither receive his body nor attend his funeral.