The Zambian government and the family of the former President, Edgar Lungu, are set to face off in the High Court in Pretoria, Gauteng province, South Africa on Thursday.
The Zambian government has filed a reconsideration application to challenge the recent urgent order in which the court directed it to return Lungu’s remains to a private mortuary.
The order was granted on an urgent basis, just hours after the Zambian government executed the August 2025 Gauteng High Court judgment that entitled it to repatriate Lungu’s remains for the purpose of a State funeral and burial.
The Zambian government charges that the Lungu family obtained the order in its absence and further cited material non-disclosures to support its bid, which include the lapse of the Supreme Court of Appeal appeal, the release of the remains to the South African Police Service and the subsequent probe into the circumstances surrounding his death.
—SABC—
