A South African court on Friday ordered former Zambian President Edward Lungu shipped back home after months of legal wrangling with his successor Hakainde Hichilema, the BBC reports.
Lungu, 68, a longtime bitter rival of Hichilema, has been dead since early June and the last time National Zero checked in Hichilema’s administration had been close to an agreement with the departed autocrat’s family to have his remains repatriated and a state funeral held, an agreement that later collapsed for who the hell knows what reason. A useful analogy would be if John McCain had flown to Canada in his final days to get treatment for the brain tumor he’d been suffering from, was unsuccessful, instructed his family that convicted felon President Trump was on no uncertain terms unwelcome at his funeral, but Trump insisted that he preside over a state funeral anyway.
And then two months later a Canadian court decided they’d had enough of the drama and sent McCain’s body back home to let Trump do whatever he wanted as far as a funeral went.