The politics of mourning QE II

QUEEN Elizabeth II’s death has touched different people differently considering Britain’s colonial legacy of plunder and the monarch’s indifference to those atrocities.

However, in Zimbabwe the most topical issue was who has been invited to the funeral? Zimbabweans on Thursday woke up to a fake letter from Buckingham Palace blocking President Emmerson Mnangagwa from attending the funeral to be held on Monday at Westminster Abbey, London.

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