Posted on 04/10/2012 9:42:23 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Zimbabwe on Tuesday dismissed reports that President Robert Mugabe was battling for life in a Singapore hospital as "a lot of hogwash", after his absence forced cabinet to postpone this week's meeting.
"It's a lot of hogwash," Information Minister Webster Shamu told AFP. "This is not the first time we have heard these rumours. If anything like that had happened, we would have issued a statement."
He would not disclose the whereabouts of Mugabe, 88, who was reported by state media to have left for Singapore on a private visit more than a week ago to arrange post-graduate studies for his daughter Bona.
Shamu's statement came on the back of a report in the Zimbabwe Mail news website that Mugabe, in power since 1980, was seriously ill and had agreed to hand over power to defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa.
A government source who spoke on condition of anonymity said Mugabe was well and denied the report.
"He is on a private visit in Singapore," the source said.
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The guy is about 90 now.
He’s either going to be in relatively great health or in very poor health.
Baghdad Bob’s got a new gig, I see...
According to Robin Moore (author of THE GREEN BERETS), Muggsy lost his genitals (all of them) due to STD.
Or, it could be that Mugabe’s been dead for a week? Just saying.
Yep! Maybe on his return to Zimbabwe he will walk off the plane in a coffin.
I’m pulling for VERY POOR HEALTH and death soon — very soon.
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