LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)-Preparations for the burial of the late Senior Chief Kachindamoto of Dedza are at an advanced stage, with hundreds of people already converging at Nkosini Headquarters near Mtakataka Primary School in Nsunduzeni Village.

Ngoni cultural performances are being staged, while a CCAP choir is providing hymns at the vigil home.

More people continue to arrive to pay their respects to the fallen chief, who was widely celebrated for her fight against child marriages.

She succumbed to diabetes on Wednesday at Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH) in Lilongwe.

President Lazarus Chakwera is expected to attend the ceremony and lead the nation in giving the chief a dignified farewell.