3 Doctors from Zambia Demand to See the Body of Edgar Lungu
By Amb Emmanuel Mwamba
3 Doctors from Zambia Demand to See the Body of ECL
Contraversy and mystery has continued to plague the remains of the late President Edgar Lungu.
Zambian authorities on Wednesday, 2nd July 2025 violated terms of the South African High Court Order when they sent 3 medical doctors to access the body of Zambia Sixth President Dr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu.
Alert hospital officials immediately informed the ECL family of the presence of the three (3) doctors from Zambia.
The doctors identified themselves and stated that they were at the hospital seeking to access and view the body of the late President.
The 3 doctors were accompanied by a person that appeared to be a either a traditional leader or traditional healer.
This action is totally against the orders of the Gauteng Court (Pretoria Division) that ruled that;
Only the First to Seventh Respondents (Mama Esther Lungu, Family and Spokesperson) are permited to visit and to inspect and/or allow further individuals to visit and to inspect the body of the late President.
The delegation was advised to return with a member of the Edgar Lungu family if they were to be granted permission.
This is the second time this has happened.
0n Monday 9th June 2025, five days after the demise of President Edgar Lungua combined team of security and pathologist turned up at the Pretoria hospital and sought to secure and collect the remains of the body.
Below is the Court Order.
Gauteng Court Secures and Restricts Remains of Zambia’s Sixth President
(In the High Court of South Africa (Gauteng Division -Pretoria)
…Only the First to Seventh Respondents (Mama Esther Lungu, Family and Spokesperson) are permited to visit and to inspect and/or allow further individuals to visit and to inspect the body of the late President.
2. If any party wishes to intervene in the application, they are to file their Notice of
Motion and Founding Affidavit and/or any Answering Affdavit on or before the 18
July 2025.
3. If any party wishes to be joined in this application as amiaus curiae, such parties
should file their Notice of Motion and Founding Affidavit on or before the 18 July
2025.
4. The Notice to Oppose to be filed by the Respondents on or before the 30 June 2025.
5. The Applicant is ordered to file its Amended Notice of Motion and Supplementary Founding Affidavit in the application seeking the repatriation of the body of the late President to Zambia, on or before the 4 July 2025.
6. The Respondents are ordered to file their Opposing Affidavits and Heads of Arguement, on or before 11th July 2025.
7. The Applicant is ordered to file its Replying Affidavit and Heads of Argument,
Chronology and List of Authorities, on or before the 18 July 2025.
8. The Respondents are to file their Heads of Argument, Chronology and List of Authorities on or before the 24 July 2025.
6. The Respondents are ordered to.file their Opposing Affidavits, on or before the 11
July 2025.
7. The Applicant is ordered to file its Replying Affidavit and Heads of Arguement, Chronology and List of Authorities or or before 18th July 2025.
8. The Respondents are to file their Heads of Argument, Chronology and List of Authorities on or before the 24th July 2025.
9. The parties are to file a Joint Practice Note and Joint Chronology on or before the 25
July 2025 and be heard as a special motion on the 4 August|2025.
10.All parties agree to electronic service on their appointed attoneys of record.
11.The costs of the urgent application are reserved to be determined when when the the main application is heard.
