Own Correspondent|THE family of the late ZIPRA military intelligence guru, Dr Dumison Dabengwa says that he will be buried at his rural home in Ntabazinduna on Saturday.

Family spokesman, Mr Freeman Dabengwa, who is Dr Dabengwa’s last born son, said that the family has made and finalised the provisionally arrangements for Dabengwa’s burial.

“We have planned that he will be buried in Ntabazinduna at a grave site for all Dabengwa family members, so we have set the date for burial as 1 June 2019. That is what is there at the moment,” he said.

Meanwhile, Dabengwa’s body will arrive this afternoon at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Internationl Airport in Bulawayo, accompanied by his widow, Zodwa.

Dr Dabengwa died on Thursday in Nairobi, Kenya while being flown back to Zimbabwe from India where he had gone for medical treatment. He was 79.

Freeman Dabengwa, said that the body of his father and liberation stalwart will arrive at 12pm at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport via South Africa.

“The body will arrive in Bulawayo at around 12pm at the Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo Airport,” he said to journalists at the family home in Bulawayo.

He said buses will be availed by Nyaradzo Funeral Services to ferry mourners to the airport.

“Nyaradzo said they will bring buses that will ferry people from the Large City Hall to the airport to go and wait for the body of Dr Dabengwa as he arrives home. So we want to let the people know that they are able to go and get transport and the buses will leave at 10.30am tomorrow (today),” he said.

Mr Dabengwa said the family was grateful to the Government for the assistance it has rendered the family including providing food for the mourners. The Government also chipped in with resources to enable the late liberation stalwart to seek medication abroad.