via Mugabe: I am tired, slept for 2 hours – New Zimbabwe 22/03/2015
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, who flies out to Algeria Monday, says he is experiencing sleepless nights due to both his hectic work schedule and resultant troubled thoughts.
Addressing thousands of people gathered at Kutama College to celebrate the institution’s 100 years of existence, the 91-year old Zanu PF leader said he was “disjointed” due to the hectic work schedule and long travelling he has been experiencing in the past days.
“Thank you all for coming; I am disjointed; we came back yesterday midnight and only slept for 2 hours and I have a habit that when something worries my me, the mind preserves it and I jump out of sleep saying it is time. That’s why we came a bit late,” he said.
The frail looking Mugabe has been in and out of the country in the last two weeks globetrotting from one country to another.
Mugabe spent over a week in Asia on United Nations duty and returned home on Thursday only for him to fly out Friday afternoon to Namibia to attend the country’s silver jubilee celebration which coincided with the inauguration of a new president of that country.
The president told the gathering which included vice president Phelekezela Mphoko and cabinet ministers that he will push for an audit of A2 farms as most of them were lying idle.
“We are happy with the A1 farmers whom we rely upon mostly for maize but the A2 farmers have been giving us problems and we have discovered that quite many of their farms are lying idle.
“We want to carry out an audit on A2 farms because some people are having farms for status. They tend to say that I have a farm; I am a farmer. But the questions is what are you doing in those farms,” Mugabe said.
Since 2000 the government has distributed land previously owned by white farmers to black people with most of them being politically linked.
But since the controversial land reform program, the country has experienced food shortages as the resettled farmers have failed to utilise the land. Even Mugabe himself recently said he thought the farms allocated to the black farmers could be too large for the new owners.
On Sunday Mugabe chronicled his family history praising Kutama for playing a pivotal role in modelling what he thinks are some of the greatest people in the country.
And yet probably due to old age and fatigue, Mugabe claimed that one of his brothers, the first born in his family, was born in 1999 when he should have said 1919.
Mugabe was born in 1924 and was educated at Kutama College. The unyielding nonagenarian flies out to Algiers tonight on a state visit.
According to the official press Mugabe, who recently fell as he stepped down the podium at the Harare International Airport, cannot help the situation as he is the head of both the SADC and the African Union on top of being a President of the troubled Southern African country.
“Bon Voyage Comrade President,” cooed the Herald, the de facto Munhumutapa Building diary.
COMMENTS
kkkkkkkkk whatever happened to delegation of power, does he have to do it all himself how about his 2 deputies. Well may be he can cross over sooner!!!!!!
This man finally appears to have a death wish! I have absolutely no sympathy for him yet can’t help but wonder if his coterie have planned his itinerary, knowing that the pressure could very likely lead to heart-attack or stroke for a person much younger than him.
A death this way could be expected, thereby negating all the stories about prostrate cancer and dementia etc. And do you think Graceless cares? No way – she can’t wait for him to throw-off his mortal coil – otherwise she would forbid all these back-to-back trips. She probably thinks she has already set herself and HER daughter (Bona looks uncannily like her mother – not at all like Robert)in line for the throne. And no-doubt she already has another high-ranking Zanu official in line for backer/husband.
Good leaders delegate. Why does he always insist he has to go himself even to meetings where he is only president attending apart from the host?
In a country with two VPs plus foreign minister, the president must be delegating those guys to go to some of these meaningless meetings instead of him always going as the case is now.
He has brought this upon himself, he cannot complain only wish if he used his own personal money for these endless tarriances.
Mugabe doesn’t want to delegate the chairing of the cabinet in his absence also. But he cant be in two places at any given time.
Take a break, old man! YOU ARE IN THE SUNSET OF YOUR LIFE! ZIMBABWE WILL BALWAYS BE THERE EVEN WHEN YYOU ARE GONE! WHERE IS GEN JOSH, MZENDA, MSIKA, ETC! IN SHORT, RETIRE!
Pity the old geezer failed to take notes from Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore a 91 year old who achieved measurable results in moving his country from the third world to the first world within his stint in leadership.
Its ok Bob, just take a nap in your next important meeting and catch up on your much needed rest…
You think you are 19 years old you fool. It’s high time you have given it a rest, waunyana zvese ne brain dzacho.
just leave the post and go to rest permanantly