HARARE – The party of Zimbabwe’s president says his sister Sabina Mugabe – a former lawmaker and one of his closest allies – died after a long battle with illness. She was 76.
The death yesterday of Robert Mugabe’s most trusted family confidante and associate would be a severe blow to the ascetic 86-year-old president, who is often seen as having few close friends.Zanu-PF party spokesman Rugare Gumbo said Sabina Mugabe will be buried at Heroes Acre, a national shrine for loyalist politicians and fallen guerrillas from the liberation war that ended white rule in Zimbabwe in 1980.She retired from Parliament in 2008 after a lifetime in politics alongside Mugabe. – Nampa-AP
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