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Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has declared a three-day period of national mourning for late Zambian president Rupiah Banda who died last week.

The body of late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu returned to dust via “aquamation”, an environmentally-friendly process using water instead of fire only to cremate the body, APA learnt on Sunday.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday gave the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu a hearty send-off at St Georges Cathedral in Cape Town, saying he was grateful to “Tutu for his efforts in helping build the nation.”

As instructed before he died, the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s remains are lying in state “in a plain wooden coffin with rope handles” at his former St. George’s Cathedral in Cape Town on Thursday.

Malawians are mourning the death of former First Lady Anne Muluzi who succumbed to cancer at a Kenyan hospital on Tuesday.

The late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu will be granted his wish to have a simple funeral, “with the cheapest coffin available,” his foundation said on Wednesday.

Former president Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graça Machel has paid an emotional tribute and farewell to the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, thanking him for his undying service during the years he was instrumental in fighting apartheid in the country.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday that although the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s has left this world, his “life was one well lived” which all South Africans “must try to emulate and celebrate.”

President Cyril Ramaphosa has condoled the wife of the late former president FW de Klerk, following the passing of the last apartheid-era leader of South Africa due to lung cancer on Thursday.

South Africa and Mozambique on Tuesday commemorated the 35th anniversary of the death of former Mozambican president Samora Machel at Mbuzini in Mpumalanga province while returning from a Frontline States Summit in Zambia in 1986.