Minister tells of Mugabe's sleep
By KITSEPILE NYATHI, NATION CORRESPONDENT, HARARE Posted Wednesday, August
29 2012 at 02:46
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe sleeps at crucial meetings and has become a
liability for the country, one of his ministers has said.
Professor Welshman Ncube who leads of one of the two Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC) formations said the 88 year-old leader slept at the recent
Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit in Mozambique.
Prof Ncube told party supporters that President Mugabe had to be roused by
Zambian President Michael Sata after he fell asleep a few minutes after the
meeting that was meant to discuss the Zimbabwe crisis began.
"The question is not about the retention of Mugabe, even at the SADC
meetings he sleeps," Prof Ncube said. "If you are strong and young, you
sleep in a dignified way but his whole body collapses when he sleeps.
"You sleep to a point that you are woken up by an equally old Sata as early
as 9 am, who would tell other leaders that let us wake Mugabe he is
sleeping. "You think that person can rule Zimbabwe. We need fresh leaders
with power and strength who do you do not have to look at and check if they
are still awake."
President Mugabe, 87 has been in power since Zimbabwe's independence from
Britain in 1980.
There have been reports that he is battling advanced prostate cancer and
several other chronic ailments.
In April there were even reports he had died while receiving treatment at a
Singapore hospital.
But he often scoffs at reports about his death joking that he has
resurrected more times than Jesus Christ.
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He has visited Singapore several times since last year but has said it was
for an eye check-up after undergoing an operation in the Far East last
January.
President Mugabe has already been endorsed by his Zanu PF party to be its
presidential candidate in elections expected next year.
Zanu PF spokesperson Mr Rugare Gumbo dismissed Prof Ncube's statements
saying it would be immature to do so.
Meanwhile, President Mugabe is likely to be challenged by Prime Minister
Morgan Tsvangirai in the next elections.
Mr Tsvangirai beat the veteran ruler in the first round of the 2008
presidential election but was prevented from contesting the run-off poll
after President Mugabe's supporters embarked on a violent campaign.
Mr Tsvangirai on Tuesday rejected a new draft constitution proposed by
President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF, saying his rivals had all but ditched a
painstakingly negotiated earlier draft.
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