{"id":9486,"date":"2012-03-30T15:41:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/family-says-zimbabwe-general-killed-seek-to-exhume-body\/"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:41:42","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T13:41:42","slug":"family-says-zimbabwe-general-killed-seek-to-exhume-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/family-says-zimbabwe-general-killed-seek-to-exhume-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Family says Zimbabwe general killed, seek to exhume body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mujuru family says disagrees with court findings<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Family wants to seek independent autopsy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By MacDonald Dzirutwe<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The family of a former<br \/>\nZimbabwean army general who was seen as a key player in the race<br \/>\nto succeed President Robert Mugabe before dying in a fire last<br \/>\nAugust suspects he was murdered and will seek to exhume his<br \/>\nbody, state-owned media said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a court ruled out foul play in the death in a<br \/>\nfarmhouse blaze of Solomon Mujuru, popularly known by his<br \/>\nguerrilla name Rex Nhongo.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mujuru was married to Vice-President Joice Mujuru and headed<br \/>\na ruling party faction that wanted her to succeed Mugabe as<br \/>\nparty and state president. Media reported that he was pressing<br \/>\nMugabe to retire and that his faction had courted Prime Minister<br \/>\nMorgan Tsvangirai&#8217;s Movement for Democratic Change party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His death led to media speculation at the time that he had<br \/>\nbeen killed in a political power play to help Mugabe, who has<br \/>\nruled the destitute state for more than 30 years, and his<br \/>\nsupporters in his ruling ZANU-PF.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is suspicion in the minds of my clients and relatives<br \/>\nthat somebody killed the general and ferried his body and put it<br \/>\nin the house,&#8221; Mujuru&#8217;s family lawyer Thakor Kewada told the<br \/>\nstate-owned Herald newspaper.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kewada said he would write to the home affairs ministers to<br \/>\nseek exhumation of Mujuru&#8217;s body on behalf of the family.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mujuru family says disagrees with court findings * Family wants to seek independent autopsy By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE, March 30 (Reuters) &#8211; The family of a former Zimbabwean army general who was seen as a key player in the race to succeed President Robert Mugabe before dying in a fire last August suspects he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-9486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}