{"id":9806,"date":"2012-04-11T04:04:31","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/update-3-zimbabwes-mugabe-well-on-holiday\/"},"modified":"2012-04-11T04:04:31","modified_gmt":"2012-04-11T02:04:31","slug":"update-3-zimbabwes-mugabe-well-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-zimbabwes-mugabe-well-on-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Zimbabwe&#8217;s Mugabe &quot;well, on holiday&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ZANU-PF officials dismiss reports Mugabe ill in Singapore<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* They say he on private holiday, expected back this week<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Fears of succession battle surround 88-year-old leader<\/p>\n<p> (Adds ZANU-PF chief spokesman)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Cris Chinaka<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday<br \/>\ndismissed reports President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in<br \/>\nSingapore, saying he was well, on holiday there with his family<br \/>\nand expected to return home this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Chief spokesman for Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party Rugare Gumbo told<br \/>\nstate television the reports were &#8220;lies meant to destabilise<br \/>\nZimbabwe&#8221; and the veteran leader would return home this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Two other senior officials had also angrily denied reports<br \/>\nby some international media that he was undergoing intensive<br \/>\ntreatment in a Singapore hospital and was fighting for his life.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 88-year-old president has been the subject of several<br \/>\nhealth scares in recent years, with some reports saying he has<br \/>\nprostate cancer, but in February interviews with state media he<br \/>\nlaughed off suggestions that he was seriously ill.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe is one of Africa&#8217;s longest serving leaders and has<br \/>\nruled the former British colony in southern Africa since 1980.<br \/>\nHe is sharing power with political rival Prime Minister Morgan<br \/>\nTsvangirai in a fragile coalition formed three years ago.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* ZANU-PF officials dismiss reports Mugabe ill in Singapore * They say he on private holiday, expected back this week * Fears of succession battle surround 88-year-old leader (Adds ZANU-PF chief spokesman) By Cris Chinaka HARARE, April 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwean officials on Tuesday dismissed reports President Robert Mugabe was seriously ill in Singapore, saying [&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-9806","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\/9806","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=9806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}