{"id":15023,"date":"2025-11-11T13:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/former-zambian-presidents-body-still-in-sa-mortuary\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:24","slug":"former-zambian-presidents-body-still-in-sa-mortuary","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/former-zambian-presidents-body-still-in-sa-mortuary\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Zambian President&#8217;s body still in SA mortuary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It is almost five months since the former Zambian President, \u00a0Edgar Lungu died in South Africa (SA).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>His body is still at the funeral parlour in the country.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This is due to the legal battle between the government of Zambia and the family of Lungu.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>However, this matter will soon be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>The family of Lungu want a private funeral in SA, while the government of Zambia want to accord Lungu a state funeral in Lusaka as per government policy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>This matter that is now in court in Pretoria, Gauteng Province, is likely going to be resolved in the coming days.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The government of Zambia is expected to make an announcement that the case will no longer continue and will give Lungu&#8217;s family a chance to decide on what will happen to the burial of the former Zambian President.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bL1lg9Xai6c?si=Yg3fxlQWV4czKikX\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":15024,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-15023","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"Almost five months since the former Zambian President died in SA","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19437,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/15023\/revisions\/19437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=15023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}