Ex-Leader’s Funeral Stalls as Zambia, Family Feud in Court
Edgar Lungu in 2017.
Photographer: Salim Dawood/AFP/Getty Images
A Pretoria court further delayed the funeral of ex-Zambian President Edgar Lungu, after his nation’s government sought to block his family from burying him in South Africa, where he died June 5.
The case will be heard on Aug. 4 and Lungu can’t be buried until the matter is concluded, according to a court ruling broadcast on South African state television on Wednesday.