{"id":8190,"date":"2012-02-22T02:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-1-resurrected-mugabe-turns-88-to-stay-in-power\/"},"modified":"2012-02-22T02:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T00:23:36","slug":"update-1-resurrected-mugabe-turns-88-to-stay-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-resurrected-mugabe-turns-88-to-stay-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-&#8216;Resurrected&#8217; Mugabe turns 88, to stay in 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> (Recasts with radio interview)<\/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, joking about reports circulating<br \/>\nfor years of his imminent demise and vowing to stay in power<br \/>\ndespite international condemnation of his economic and human<br \/>\nrights record.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe said he was in tip-top shape in an interview with<br \/>\nstate radio, and made no reference to media reports that he is<br \/>\nreceiving treatment for prostate cancer in Singapore.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have died many times. That&#8217;s where I have beaten Christ.<br \/>\nChrist died once and resurrected once,&#8221; the devout Catholic<br \/>\nMugabe told the radio broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am as fit as a fiddle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe charmed world leaders with his wit and intellect in<br \/>\nthe early years of his rule, when a relatively rich Zimbabwe was<br \/>\npraised for its education and social systems.<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 (Recasts with radio interview) By Cris Chinaka HARARE, Feb 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert Mugabe turned 88 on Tuesday, joking about reports circulating for years of his imminent demise and [&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-8190","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\/8190","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=8190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}