The
92-year-old was responding to rumours online that he had been rushed for
medical treatment in Dubai
Zimbabwean
president Robert Mugabe today poked fun at rumours he was dying by saying:
"Yes, I died, but I resurrected."
The
92-year-old was responding to rumours online that he had been rushed for
medical treatment in Dubai.
Mugabe told
journalists at Harare international airport he had gone to Dubai on a family
matter concerning one of his children.
He quipped:
"Yes, I was dead, it's true I was dead. I resurrected as I always do. Once
I get back to my country I am real."
But Mugabe
showed some signs of frailty, walking slowly from the plane and only chatting
briefly with officials before being whisked away in a motorcade.
Reports Mugabe
is gravely ill have become common in recent years, but the veteran politician
often refers to himself as "fit as a fiddle".
Last week
Mugabe accused Western countries, including the United States, of sponsoring
recent anti-government protests.
But even some
of his once stalwart supporters, including Zimbabwe's war veterans who invaded
white commercial farms in support of Mugabe's land seizures, have turned their
backs on him, saying he has "devoured" the values of the liberation
struggle.
Zimbabwe,
which has also been hit by drought and weak commodity prices, is struggling to
pay salaries to soldiers, police and other public workers, fuelling political
tensions, including within the ruling ZANU-PF.
Mugabwe has
led Zimbabwe since its formation in 1980 from the remains of white-ruled
Rhodesia.
SOURCE:mirror.co.uk
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