Mugabe heads to Singapore for treatment ~ Marina Bay Sands

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Mugabe heads to Singapore for treatment

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By Staff Reporter

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe left the capital Harare on Wednesday for what is thought to be routine medical checks in Singapore. The latest visit will no doubt renew speculation about his reported ailing health.

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President Mugabe chats to VP Mujuru at the Harare International Airport before his departure

The official line is that President Mugabe is on a ten-day foreign trip that will take him to Singapore, Dubai and Kuwait.

But this has always been the nature of his ‘foreign trips’, several different destinations with Singapore always the common denominator.

A month before elections this year Mugabe again passed through Singapore on his way to a state visit to Japan.

The Zanu PF leader who turns 90 in February has consistently denied reports that he is battling prostate cancer and instead his spokesman George Charamba claims he only goes there to see an eye specialist.

In April last year Mugabe snuck out of the country for Singapore where he spent 12 days. The official line was that he was going there to make study arrangements for his daughter Bona.

When he failed to return on time, missing two consecutive cabinet meetings and an important ZANU PF politburo meeting, speculation turned to his health. The story sparked frenetic speculation with even some websites incorrectly reporting that he was on his ‘deathbed’.

According to a leaked 2008 US diplomatic cable, central bank chief Gideon Gono told then-US ambassador James McGee that Mugabe had prostate cancer and had been advised by doctors he had less than five years to live (up to 2013).

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