UN Robert Mugabe 'unable to walk' - Things keep getting better in Zimbabwe

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-46329242

Zimbabwe's former President Mugabe, 94, is unable to walk because of ill health, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.

Mr Mugabe has been in Singapore for treatment for an undisclosed illness for the past two months, he added.

The former president also made several medical trips there towards the end of his time in power.

Mr Mnangagwa became head of state a year ago after Mr Mugabe was ousted following the intervention of the army.

Up to that point, Mr Mugabe was the only president Zimbabwe had known, having been in power for 37 years.

He led the movement for Zimbabwean independence from white minority rule.

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Image captionPresident Emmerson Mnangagwa told supporters that his predecessor would be back in the country next week
President Mnangagwa was addressing a rally in his predecessor's home area when he talked about the former leader's health.

"He is now old. Of course, he now is unable to walk but whatever he asks for we will provide," the AFP news agency quotes him as saying.

When Mr Mugabe was in power officials said he was being treated for eye problems, denying rumours that he had cancer.

Despite being unable to walk, Mr Mnangagwa said the former leader was feeling better and would be back in the country next week.

"We are looking after him. He is the founding father of the nation of Zimbabwe. He is our founding father of free Zimbabwe," the president added, AFP reports.

The government is paying for Mr Mugabe's treatment.

After taking over from him last year, Mr Mnangagwa won a disputed presidential election in July.
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Die Mugabe.

 
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Imagine this would be the last thing he hears when he finally croaks:
 
Just a reminder that China owns Zimbabwe so much that the military went to China and asked permission to overthrow him.
 
Ugh.

I remember reading about this idiot since I was in elementary and middle school. My teachers were big NPR hippies, and thought reading children’s magazines about inconsequential stuff like boxite manufacturing in Myanmar was important to education.

But every other week, Robert Mugabe had a picture and a paragraph about something else he was doing. I don’t want to date myself, but I am so sick of hearing about this guy. It’s just further proof to me that karma is a myth.
 
Guess he'll just have to commit larceny from a wheelchair then....
 
It sucks that we can't give one-word answers here. I'm torn between "good!" and an ironic "oh no!" and both are fucking pointless anyway.

The world's biggest cunt edges ever closer to death, at least.
 
Robert Mugabe was on a fact-finding visit to Israel. While he was on a tour of Jerusalem he suffered a heart attack and died.

The undertaker told the Zimbabwean diplomats who were accompanying him, 'You can have him shipped home for $50,000, or you can bury him here in the Holy Land, for just $100.'

The Zim diplomats went into a corner and discussed this for several minutes. They came back to the undertaker and told him they wanted the president shipped home.

The undertaker was puzzled and asked, 'Why would you spend $50,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here, in the Holy Land, and you would spend only $100?'

The diplomats replied, 'A long time ago a man died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. We just can't take that risk.'
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not william stenchever said:
Spending trillions of Zimbabwean funny money on keeping this guy alive is not very communist.
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Zimbabwe does not have its own money. They went to foreign currency and introduced bond coins that function as a representative money for a fiat money. Two and five dollar bond notes were also made, but no one in the country wanted them because they feared Zimbabwe trying to introduced currency again. People outside Zimbabwe pay well over face value for uncirculated bond notes. Larger bond notes were planned, but never released. MDC wants bond notes removed from circulation and replaced with the rand to ease cash shortages.
 
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