President Edgar Lungu has declared tomorrow, Friday the 26th of March 2021 a Day of National Mourning in honour of the Late President of the United of the Republic of Tanzania Dr John Magufuli.
He said the national mourning period will be from 06:00 hour to 18:00 hours and all flags will fly at half-mast.
President Lungu stated that programmes of an entertainment nature on both radio and Television should be cancelled or postponed.
He described the late President Magufuli as a great son of Africa whose death will forever be vividly imprinted in the hearts and minds of the Tanzanian people.
The President stated that the late leader was determined to bring about socioeconomic transformation and prosperity to Tanzania.
President Lungu last Monday the 22nd of March joined other Heads of State from the Southern Africa Region to pay their last respects to the Late Dr Magufuli at the State Funeral held at Jamhuri Stadium in the city of Dodoma.
The Tanzanian leader died last week on Wednesday, 17th March, 2021 and will be put to rest tomorrow on Friday, 26th March, 2021 in his hometown of Chato in Geita region, North Western Tanzania.
This is according to a statement issued to ZANIS by Secretary to the Cabinet, Simon Miti.
You can’t fit in Magufuli’s sandals brother you’re just so corrupt.
He developed Tanzania to what it is today today without borrowing.
I remember when he first came into office he cleaned up Tanzanian civil service payroll and removed thousands of ghost employees.
He refused billions dollar debts and managed to source internal funds to develop most infrastructures we see today in Tanzania.
He hated corruption to core and Edgar Lungu is a corrupt man.
Edgar Lungu must be punished for bringing poverty to our nation.
PF must go!
Typical lazy man thinking indeed with businesses struggling with a pandemic all this bum Edgar can think of is slowing down productivity….its clear you never understood Magafuli or his work ethic.
This lazy baboon wants to please who? We mourn Magufuli but that doesn’t have to stop Zambians from being productive and go about their lives in earning money in a country that has citizens scrapping to put a meal on the table. This guy is brainless.
He probably will be drunk starting tonight. What a useless brainless creature.
The worst nigga Zambia ever put as a President.
When will Lungu realize Zambians are mourning the poor economy too? Over 5yrs of mourning actually.
Lazy Lungu is not mourning Magufuli …we all know he is mourning his friend who is incarcerated in DRC prison, that arms dealer thug Zingiman
This is very unusual and not necessary.
You just wonder if Lungu was sober when he made this decision.
We are all grief stricken by the loss of the Tanzanian president.
But the best way to honour him would be to stop corruption, and bring back the money that has been stolen from our people. Then prosecute corrupt ministers, and tell us who was behind the gassing.
If you do even one from the above list, Magafuli will even smile from his grave.
With Lungu, we can’t even win football games anymore. Everything is going south with this guy.
Look at all the f00lish comments from upnd diasporans who don’t live in Zambia. It is us mourning our fellow African brother and it is us who are getting the holiday. So why does that annoy you? Continue suffering with stress and bp there abroad from being treated as inferior black baboons by the whltes who keep you there. You are worse than dogs. In fact my dogs are more well mannered than all of you.
Is this for real since when has a national mourning been declared for a person who isn’t a citizen of the country. Mwandi this guy is a joker.
List 1 thing in common between Lungu and late Tanzania president. Kaizer Zulu go ahead.
But let me listen 100
Lungu has put zambia into heavy big debt. Lungu does not prosecute those who have amassed wealth through abuse of office and were fired by late data coz of corruption. Magufuli fired and arrested
Iwe chi KZ, suffering where? From what I hear people suffer there more. I own a fleet of 8 semi trucks and you having stolen money and bought some trucks should know that we are making more money here than the peanuts you are collecting
Kaizar COVID Zulu….shut your big mouth iwe makaka pompwe
For example, per week one truck brings me $10,000 -$12,000, to encourage my drivers, I do 30/70, so my drivers gets $1800-$3000 per week depending on how many
Loads they did and after expense( gas, insurance and toll fees) I bring home $7000 minimum PER WEEK and PER TRUCK, not those peanuts you guys are making uko. We are making money here. Yourself ain’t you taking stolen money to Dubai? Please shut that mouth of yours.
If Zambia had good leadership we would be building and investing there but bukabwalala imwe Ba Pompwe. I would rather put my money in South Africa or Botswana than Zambia and that’s very sad. Right now we just WorldRemit some funds to our relatives so they can eat and not collect unga with gumugumu’s head ati empowerment, rubbish chabe imwe mbulu.
LZ you are dull
If Zambia had good leadership we would be building and investing there but bukabwalala imwe Ba P0mpw3. I would rather put my money in South Africa or Botswana than Zambia and that’s very sad. Right now we just WorldRemit some funds to our relatives so they can eat and not collect unga with 9umugumu’s head ati empowerment?
If Zambia had good leadership we would be building and investing there but imwe Ba P0mpw3. I would rather put my money in South Africa or Botswana than Zambia and that’s very sad. Right now we just WorldRemit some funds to our relatives so they can eat and not collect unga with 9umugumu’s head ati empowerment?
Excellent!! This is how you live with neighbours. Stand by each other through the God days and the bad days. Well thought your Excellency.
Tanzania is our neighbour, actually our main line for our imports. So if our neighbour are mourning the death of their president I don’t see anything wrong with mourning with our colleagues by declaring a national mourning
Firstly, @KZ or whichever species he/she belongs to, is the most despicable troll ever planted here.
Secondly, I agree with @Indigo above. The best way to have honoured Magufuli would have been to emulate his heroic socio-economic transformation endeavour. Is it so difficult? We know ECL can’t think ahead or strategically, so perhaps ‘copy and paste’? I don’t remember when we have had national mourning under ECL for a foreign leader. Will this be the norm? Magufuli would have wanted you to do a honest days work on his burial day.
What about Mugabe?
Is this national or international day of mourning?
The truth hurts! If your lives were so good there abroad you wouldn’t bother yourself with our internal events here in zambia. Face reality and accept that you will never be accepted there abroad. And if you think you will move back to zambia after hh wins, then good luck with that because you will die in diaspora.
Harold muna f00lish backside wiper for old whlte people, fuseke!!