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FORMER Zanu-PF Harare provincial chairman and Cabinet Minister Amos Midzi, who died on Monday, will be buried tomorrow at Glen Forest Memorial Park.
Family spokesperson Stanley Midzi, said they would not wait for toxicology analysis results that he said might take more than two weeks to be released.
“Toxicology analysis results are now inconsequential to our plans because we’re going ahead with our burial arrangements on Saturday,” he said.
“As I said before, he (Cde Midzi) was our hero so we’re going to give him a befitting burial.”
Midzi said they were not aware if Zanu-PF was planning to accord him hero status, adding that party plans were not going to stop family plans.
“My brother was a politician, but as a family, we’re not politicians, so we do not know how the process of according hero status is done,” he said.
“We’re going ahead with our plans and tomorrow, we’ll take his body from the funeral parlour at 2PM.
“It’ll lie in state at home, and on Saturday, we’ll take it for burial.”
This comes at a time when members of the ousted Joice Mujuru cabal said they were not ruling out foul play in Midzi’s death until the police released a comprehensive report.
Self-imposed spokesperson of the cabal Rugare Gumbo said: “With these kinds of deaths and accidents, you can’t make a conclusion until the police give a detailed report. “You can’t rule out foul play until it’s established that he died in this manner or that manner.
“Evidence that he might have been poisoned is there, but we want to know if he poisoned himself or someone poisoned him.”
Online Reporter