“President Mugabe fit as fiddle” – Herald

The Herald

11 September 2014

A senior MDC official has publicly admitted that President Mugabe’s health is not in question saying he keeps himself as fit as a fiddle.

In an interview with the Australian broadcasting Corporation during his trip down under, Bulawayo Senator David Coltart, told his interlocutor that President Mugabe was not the usual 90-year-old.

“Well, Robert Mugabe turns 91 in February (next year) and so he is old.”

“I have to say this without, let me say, any admiration for him: that he is a remarkable 91-year-old. I was in Cabinet with him for four years. I was amazed by his grasp of facts, his institutional knowledge,” Mr Coltart, the former education, sport arts and culture Minister in the inclusive government said.

“One should not think that Robert Mugabe is your usual 91-year-old. He keeps fit and whilst physically he is slowing down, he is still very agile mentally. But he is slowing down.”

This is the first time a senior MDC official has openly dispelled speculation on President Mugabe’s health.

Whenever President Mugabe leaves Zimbabwe on official state or personal business, the opposition parties and sections of the private media going to overdrive speculating on his health, prompting him to jokingly say he has been declared dead by these media many times but they always forget to write about his “Resurrection”.