Zimbabwe's Mugabe says not going anywhere, not dying

Record ID: 904600

  • Title: Zimbabwe's Mugabe says not going anywhere, not dying
  • Date: 29th July 2017
  • Summary: MUGABE SITTING SLEEPING MUGABE SLEEPING NEXT TO GRACE WIDE OF PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT, ROBERT MUGABE, SAYING: "Well there is the issue that the president is going. I'm not going. The president is dying. I am not dying." ZANU PF SUPPORTERS CHEERING (SOUNDBITE) (English) ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT, ROBERT MUGABE, SAYING: "I have an ailment here and there, I go to the doctors like anyone else, but bodywise my organs, my heart, my liver, very firm, very strong." ZANU PF SUPPORTERS LISTENING TO SPEECH (SOUNDBITE) (English and Shona) ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT, ROBERT MUGABE, SAYING: "A new man will be welcomed more by the opposition and Morgan Tsvangirai because he will be raw and will not have the same stature and the same acceptance as I have managed to secure over the years for the party." CROWD LISTENING
  • Embargoed: 12th August 2017 18:18
  • Keywords: President Robert Mugabe Zimbabwe president health Mugabe resignation Mugabe not dying Grace Mugabe
  • Location: CHINHOYI, ZIMBABWE
  • City: CHINHOYI, ZIMBABWE
  • Country: Zimbabwe
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0026RRRHHJ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on Saturday (July 29) said he was neither stepping down nor dying and that there was no one with his political stature who could immediately take over from him.
    The 93-year-old leader has been in charge in the former British colony since independence in 1980. His health is closely watched by Zimbabweans, who fear the country could face chaos if he dies without anointing a successor.
    Mugabe told tens of thousands of supporters at a rally in the town of Chinhoyi, in his home province, that if he had an ailment he would "go to the doctors like anyone else", but said his heart and liver were "very firm, very strong".
    He has travelled to Singapore three times this year for what officials say is routine medical treatment.
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