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Unsteady Mugabe pictures emerge

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Published: July 28, 2010

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Pulling ahead ... President Mugabe appears to joke with aides as he recovers his poise

Check your balance … Mugabe walks unsteadily on steps as aides rush to support

APPROACHING his 87th birthday next February, President Robert Mugabe appears to give his friends a few birthday gift ideas as he walks unsteadily down the steps prompting aides to offer some support.

These pictures were taken as Mugabe left the closing ceremony of the African Union’s Summit in Kampala, Uganda, on July 27.

Mugabe, who still looks fit for his age, has never been seen in public with a walking stick and until recently, was bouncing up and down the steps of Air Zimbabwe planes – an image his PR people were happy to put out as it showed their man to be robust and raring.

But these pictures from Uganda show a man struggling to hold onto his youthful stoicism that has helped him stay in power for an incredible 30 years – for his minders and his Zanu PF party an unwelcome reminder that aging is mandatory, and he too is vulnerable to the pulling power of the end of time.

Surprisingly, Mugabe’s cabinet colleagues speak of a man whose attentiveness at meetings belies his advanced age.

A senior minister from Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC party revealed recently: “Cabinet meetings start around 9AM and Mugabe can go all the way up to 1 or 2PM without taking a break, all the time listening intensely to the proceedings, but rarely talking himself.

“There is no question he’s doing better than many at his age.”

The teetotaller President is known to exercise regularly and is a big fan of yoga – a combination that has helped him stay fit and outfox his opponents despite growing public disaffection. (newzimbabwe)


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31 Comments on "Unsteady Mugabe pictures emerge"

  1. Bla Miki on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 12:21 pm 

    Hezvo Chayachotsva

  2. choyachatsva on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 12:55 pm 

    chii chacho,president vakachembera torasa here.the main question kuvanhu ndeye kuti ndiani pasi rose angatsiva vamugabe,thats why uchiona vangoripo chete nokuti tashaya umwe angatora nzvimbo yavo.reallity is revealed.

  3. Dhagi on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 1:08 pm 

    Ha aa Tinovapa tsvimbo yekuvasapota kuti vaite steady I dhara rangu

  4. Anonymous on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 1:47 pm 

    kunyangwe hazvo nyika yava manyama amire nerongo i still got respect for my president Mwari anoziva!

  5. tindo on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 1:48 pm 

    Nokuda kwamwari vaMugabe vachafa chete. Inondinoita part mabiko chaiwo handisikuda kukunyeperai wana Choya nana Dhagi. Panofa sekuru ava ndichafara zvekuti, handineyi nevachachema asi inikumba kwangu ndichaaridza ma”jingles” iwayo, nedoro nenyama. Mazuva ave pedyo kwatakabva ndiko kure vana veZimbabwean nguva yatakanga takamirira yode kusvika. Ropa rine harahwa iyi mumaoko ayo rakawandisa.

  6. Bla Miki on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 2:15 pm 

    You think we were joking, no, we really meant it when we said ‘Long Live Cde RG Mugabe’. He is Africa’s living hero. This is a man of God, a true revolutionary, Statesman and the greatest leader of this generation. Iwe Tindo, urifuza chairo iwe, you are just like the biblical son of Noah akaseka baba vake varara zvisizvo nekudhakwa, thereby creating this black skin through god’s anger. Uchatukwa Tindo or else wakatotukwa kare. Tamba kashiriko kako kasina volume and no one will ever bother you. Hauna kusiyana nechimutorwa icho chinoshandisa zita rangu kutuka such good brains like Choya. LONG LIVE CDE R.G MUGABE

  7. Guvnor on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 2:20 pm 

    Ascent followed by apogee followed by decline. The immovable will surely meet the irrisistable. This is the way it has always been and this is the way it will always be. Only the feeble minded and those that sold their souls to a lost cause will be amazed by the emerging reality. Those that are wise age with grace so that they are do not cross the threshold of life to death kicking and screaming.

  8. ndini kani on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 3:22 pm 

    hapanawo here any video link yacho nderikuda kuona kuti zvaka nyatso famba sei ipapapa.because ndatsvaka pa youtube hapanaba.

  9. donkey dhongi on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 3:58 pm 

    back from Venezuela via Iran feels so good will be starting work on sunday midnight pambili ne soil

  10. Chinhakwe on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 5:19 pm 

    Long retired on the job but not from it. Chasara kuzviitira tsvina pamberi peruzhinji rwevanhu tozoona kuti maflunkies anozobata sezvavarikuita apa.

  11. Khule on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 8:28 pm 

    Baba ava was a genious but everything was spoiled by his inability to face corrupt colleagues,torturing the people who put him on power.The old man has a young family and I think the security chiefs who denied him opportunity to enjoy his last days with family after losing elections,vane hutsinye and should be accountable for mentally and physically torturing this old man.I used to think he was even more popular than Mandela,but he just spoiled it to please the security chiefs.Poor old man like him should be given time off and possibly act as an advisor to fure governments.Never enjoyed quality life,it’s a shame.

  12. Leon on Wed, 28th Jul 2010 9:15 pm 

    The man is getting dangerous with age like wine. He will soon need a care assistant like the Pope or Castro.

  13. ENUFF on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 1:18 am 

    I am PREPARING for a HUGE FAREWELL for this DICK-TATOR. The WORLD Does NOT REQUIRE SUCH people like MUGABE or his CRONIES.

    Hope they DIG a GRAVE not 6 Foot DEEP but atleast !@ METRES DEEP. In case the WANA -**** comes out AGAIN.

  14. choyachatsva on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 6:48 am 

    welcome blaz donkey dhongi,apa ndina mukoma bla miki the original,dhagi na anonymous helping me to teach these fools gwara rechimurenga.long live rg Mugabe,we miss you,we would like to see our president face to face,otherwise i might be relieved. rambayi makashinga vamugabe,tava kuda nhaka ye ma company manje,yevhu takatora hedu pasina anopokana nazvo.

  15. agripa on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 7:16 am 

    hezvo choya…ndakambokuudza

  16. nero on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 7:52 am 

    saka choya haukwanisi kuita president here? uri mbiti yomunhu. unofunga kuti mugabe will live forever. hezvo haachagoni kufamba ega

  17. Rahish on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 9:47 am 

    I believe this is the worst scenario we can ever think of.I urge other leaders to advise President RG Mugabe to leave whilst he is still capable.

    one day you will see him him collapse before finishing a sentence which wont give a good picture to Zimbabweans and the entire world.

  18. agripa on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 12:02 pm 

    people like ana choya are being cruel to this poor old goat…you feed his delusions of grandeur such he thinks he is an extra ordinary being…let him rest..let him keep the thin shreds of respectability he still has…..hamukanzwirewo tsitsi here

  19. Mag May on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 12:46 pm 

    Ini sekuru ava ndavatadza, ndikaona kana picture yavo moyo vangu unotomira, kuda kurutsa chaiko.

  20. Bla Miki on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 1:04 pm 

    Moyo kumira kuti kudini kwacho iwe Mag May asi wakazobata pamuviri pechigeyi chenyuka ichi. Saka uchamubudisa nepapi mwana wacho iwe imbwa iwe

  21. choyachatsva on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 1:25 pm 

    mag may zimcare remunhu nhaika

  22. Dhagi on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 1:38 pm 

    Mag May waka uraya vana sekuru vako ukaramba uchitaura twusina basa ndokuudza chaizvo zvauri kana uchi funga kuti waka hwanda .

  23. Bla Miki on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 1:51 pm 

    Dhagi taura mhani nezvachi mag may ichi chinongoti kuipa sa Rahish.

  24. Guvnor on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 2:47 pm 

    It could be purely change of climate. Its winter at home and summer in Uganda north of the equator. Maybe Robert is “feeling the heat”.

  25. The Serpent on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 7:45 pm 

    Zvanaka kwazofiwawo. Regai **** rechirume iri richifa manje. God is for us all.

  26. Matigary on Thu, 29th Jul 2010 9:37 pm 

    Shame!

  27. choyachatsva on Fri, 30th Jul 2010 1:15 pm 

    the serpent fool,Guvnor stupid

  28. Guvnor on Fri, 30th Jul 2010 2:33 pm 

    Choyachatsva stabilises the unsteady and is immediately declared a living national hero?

  29. Jairos Jiri on Fri, 30th Jul 2010 9:50 pm 

    THIS will be BREAKING NEWS IN THE WORLD if mugabe dies. All media’s will camp in Zim when this man does. JUST WAIT AND C.

  30. Zanu Abhorrence on Sat, 31st Jul 2010 10:49 am 

    honde iya hondende kadhara kaye K.A.MA.MA,we will be singing that sweet song,giving thanks to the almighty one for deliverance from the pestilence that crawleth by daylight.FAR-Q CHOYA!!!and the entire lot that spew proZanu crap.

  31. Nathi on Tue, 31st Aug 2010 9:00 pm 

    I can not wait to hear that Mugabe is dead. OH God forgive me for that, I can not wait to hear those words. I will have champain to tost with freinds.
    Mugabe is worse than HIV for Zimbabweans. He has sinned more than any living Zimbaweans.




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