The hearing of the Court case involving the late President Edgar Lungu’s Family and the Zambian Government has been adjourned to 18th July, 2025.
The Attorney General has until July 3 to submit an application on whether body should be repatriated to Zambia.
And the Lungu family have until July 4 to respond once application is made.
Yesterday, Zambia’s Attorney General, Mulilo D. Kabesha SC, filed a public interest lawsuit in the Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa, Pretoria.
The suit was directed against members of the late President’s family and two other individuals, seeking an interim court order to prevent the burial of the late 6th Republican President, Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
Kabesha requested that no burial take place until all disputes regarding Dr. Lungu’s final resting place are resolved—specifically, whether he should be interred in Zambia with full military honours, customs, and traditions, as mandated by Zambian law and in keeping with public interest.
When the matter came up this morning, the South African Court adjourned the case to July 28, 2025.
Meaning Lungu will not be burried until the case is heard.
Lungu died earlier this month on 5th June 2025 in South Africa and he’s yet to be burried.
Meanwhile, mourners are still gathered in South African for the earlier funeral arranged.