News that Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe had suffered a heart attack has been doing the rounds again, but they have been laughed off by veteran journalists as part of the annual Zimbabwean news cycle.
There seem to be a cover up by the Zimbabwean government regarding this news. The Zimbabwe government on Thursday denied reports that veteran President Robert Mugabe, aged 91, had collapsed and died in Singapore after rumors spread rapidly about his alleged ill health.
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President well, fine”, the state-run Herald newspaper said stories about Mugabe’s health emerged each year when he took his annual leave outside the country.
“You cannot doubt that there will be a story on the President’s alleged death every Year,” presidential spokesman George Charamba told the paper. However, someone leaked photos insinuating Mugabe is no more
Charamba blamed the ZimEye news website for starting the rumours….s
This is the way the website seeks to improve its hits in order to get dirty money… There is a financial incentive to the grim lie,” he added.
The Herald said that Mugabe was in the “Far East” but did not specify which country.
The president, who is the world’s oldest national leader, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence in 1980.
Despite his age, he continues to give long speeches in public, but speculation over his health mounted last year when he tripped and fell down some steps at a televised ceremony.
He also read a speech to parliament in September apparently unaware that he had delivered the same address a month earlier….see more in next page below
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