{"id":8176,"date":"2012-02-21T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T12:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/zimbabwes-mugabe-turns-88-vowing-to-cling-to-power\/"},"modified":"2012-02-21T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T12:21:13","slug":"zimbabwes-mugabe-turns-88-vowing-to-cling-to-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwes-mugabe-turns-88-vowing-to-cling-to-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe&#8217;s Mugabe turns 88, vowing to cling to power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mugabe shrugs off party grumbling, foreign condemnation<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Blamed for ruining economy, human rights abuses<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ZANU-PF is &#8220;stuck with him&#8221; &#8211; analyst<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Cris Chinaka<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, Feb 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert<br \/>\nMugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite<br \/>\ngrumbling inside his party that he should hand over to a younger<br \/>\nleader, and international condemnation of his economic and human<br \/>\nrights record.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe said he was healthy and fit, in an interview with<br \/>\nstate television aired late on Monday, and made no reference to<br \/>\nmedia reports that he is receiving treatment for prostate cancer<br \/>\nin Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this age I can still go some distance, can&#8217;t I,&#8221; Mugabe<br \/>\nsaid, laughing, clapping his hands and rocking in his chair.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe once charmed global figures with his wit and<br \/>\nintellect in the early years of his rule when a relatively rich<br \/>\nZimbabwe was praised for its education and social systems.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But he has since become a pariah in the West, blamed for<br \/>\nrunning the economy into the ground and for massive human rights<br \/>\nabuses to keep his grip on power.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mugabe shrugs off party grumbling, foreign condemnation * Blamed for ruining economy, human rights abuses * ZANU-PF is &#8220;stuck with him&#8221; &#8211; analyst By Cris Chinaka HARARE, Feb 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, vowing to stay in power despite grumbling inside his party that he should hand over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8176","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}