http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/13/...ents-health-5619540/

anyone in ZIM confirm this?

Has Robert Mugabe had a heart attack? Rumours spread about Zimbabwe president’s health

A letter to a Zimbabwean news website has suggested that the country’s president Robert Mugabe has suffered a heart attack.

The letter suggests the 91-year-old was on holiday with his family when he fell ill and saying that it was unlikely that he would survive.

Metro.co.uk has contacted the Zimbabwean embassy to find out whether there is any truth in the rumours and there have previously been hoaxes about Mugabe’s death.

However, the Zimbabwean Herald reported only two days ago that the vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now Acting President.

The letter published on ZimEye yesterday said: ‘President Robert Mugabe is reported to have collapsed after suffering a heart attack while on holiday with his family and is in critical condition.’

It continued that ‘sources close to the president are said to be holding high-level meetings as it is believed that he won’t be able to recover.’

The letter suggests Mugabe and his family have been flown out of the country and extra troops are to be deployed in the capital, Harare.

Good riddance!

False. He has no heart.

Jeff

It is about time that the old fart kicks the bucket, he is a heartless soulless idiot in anyway. The day it is confirmed that he is dead I will party big time.

it is being reported from multiple sources, non of which I would call reliable. One even says he is dead.

where is the LIKE button

It's almost like having an early birthday present!

That mean his power-shopping wife takes the reins?

Bill, I think it means Zimbabwe will become a Chinese province, much like Tibet.

I communicated with Zim this morning. They are also hearing he had a heart attack. In addition, there is some movement of family which MIGHT indicate he is dead.

From what I hear, he isn't suitable for a heart transplant.

They can't find the right size stone!

Too bad ... Timing is off by about a year. Could have provided excellent future employment opportunities for Obongo.

If in fact he has died...it will be interesting to see how Obama reacts to the death.

At his age, sooner rather than later, the rumor must eventually be true.

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If in fact he has died...it will be interesting to see how Obama reacts to the death.

Commits suicide?

Obama will express his condolences and sorrows and will call him uncle Bob
He is probably his second or third cousin

If Obama had a father. Oh wait...

http://mg.co.za/article/2016-0...mugabe-death-rumours



Zim journalists roll their eyes at Mugabe death rumours

13 JAN 2016 16:55 CARIEN DU PLESSIS


Claims that Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is at death's door have been dismissed by journalists in that country as "part of the annual news cycle".


Rumours of Robert Mugabe's death have been greatly exaggerated in the past. (Reuters)


Rumours that Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe had suffered a heart attack have been doing the rounds again, but they have been laughed off by veteran journalists as part of the annual Zimbabwean news cycle.

Ray Ndlovu, who has reported on Zimbabwe for a number of South African newspaper titles, including the Mail & Guardian, tweeted earlier on Wednesday: “Oh no those Mugabe death stories have started again. Daily Star in UK reports he had a heart attack on holiday. Yawn. Wake me up when it’s over.”

The state-run The Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday that Zanu-PF was getting ready to celebrate Mugabe’s 92nd birthday on February 21, which from 1986 has been designated a national celebration to inspire the youth to emulate Mugabe’s “exemplary character and leadership qualities”.

No mention was made in the story of Mugabe’s health.

None of the sources in intelligence and the diplomatic community contacted by the M&G could attest to the state of Mugabe’s health.

Two days ago the presidency issued a statement to say that one of Mugabe’s deputies, Emmerson Mnangagwa, had taken over from his counterpart Phelekezela Mphoko as acting president while Mugabe was out of the country on holiday.

Mugabe went on leave on December 24 and traditionally takes a long break at this time of the year, which often gives rise to rumours about his health.

A year ago similar rumours about his state of health emerged.

There were also rumours last year about the health of his wife, Grace, after she stayed behind for treatment, reportedly for cancer, following their holiday last year. She laughed off rumours of ill-health while on a state visit with her husband in South Africa in April.

The Daily Star tabloid, which reported about Mugabe’s alleged heart attack on Wednesday, seems to have sourced its report from a letter yesterday on ZimEye, a Zimbabwean news site that is critical of the government.

It suggested that a rumour was doing the rounds in the country’s Central Intelligence Agency that Mugabe was in a critical condition after collapsing from a heart attack while on holiday.

The letter, which reads like a news report, states that Mugabe’s spokesperson, George Charamba, has refused to comment. “But sources close to the president are said to be holding high-level meetings as it is believed that he won’t be able to recover”.

It also alleges that the army will be deployed in Harare’s streets in the coming days.

The report claims that his family was secretly flown out of the country and that Mugabe’s condition had deteriorated. Doctors apparently told his family “to expect the worst”.

The rumour seems to have been around since January 1 but flared up again on Tuesday.

A tabloid magazine called Star Mag has reported that rumours have done the rounds on Facebook after a RIP Robert Mugabe page was set up and attracted nearly one million likes. The M&G could, however, not find this page on Facebook on Wednesday.

The magazine said the report “has been confirmed as a complete hoax and just the latest in a string of fake celebrity death reports”.

The M&G has seen a picture of Mugabe said to have been taken recently while on holiday in Malaysia.

We have this every year when Mugabe goes on his annual leave as he has done now-I don't believe a word of it,

Where does a despot go on holidays?

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We have this every year when Mugabe goes on his annual leave as he has done now-I don't believe a word of it,

They say that even a broken clock is right twice a day...

One of these days the rumour will be come fact (and the sooner the better!).

Mark

No worries, sooner or later, he will be spotted here and there in Vegas, hanging around Elvis and Michael Jackson

Maybe at the SCI Convention?

He will be honored with the SCI International Professional Hunter of the Year Award

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Maybe at the SCI Convention?

He will fit in right in among those running SCI too

Mugabe "dies" from time to time, but there has been nothing sent out by the diplomatic community in Harare and the local press is a couple of beats off Mad Magazine in various directions and not really credible. So he's probably alive and as well as he can be at that age. BTW, Zimbabwe is already another Chinese...I won't say "province"...lets just call it what it is. A colony.

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the local press is a couple of beats off Mad Magazine in various directions and not really credible.

Not sure why you would have that opinion Barry???