{"id":236320,"date":"2026-06-29T10:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236320"},"modified":"2026-06-29T10:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T10:56:22","slug":"south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=236320","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s appeals court grants Lungu&#8217;s family burial right"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A legal battle over where\u00a0former Zambian President Edgar Lungu&#8217;s remains\u00a0will be buried may be over, more than a year after he died, as South Africa&#8217;s Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday in favor of his family and rejected the Zambian government&#8217;s claim of custody over his body&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legal battle over where\u00a0former Zambian President Edgar Lungu&#8217;s remains\u00a0will be buried may be over,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right.jpg",640,360,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/236320-south-africas-appeals-court-grants-lungus-family-burial-right-590x360.jpg",590,360,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=40\" rel=\"category\">Africa<\/a>","tag_info":"Africa","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}