An emotional Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 93rd birthday with thousands of his supporters from all over the country on Saturday.
Despite continued calls from all sectors including from within his own party to name a successor, the world’s oldest seating head of state reiterated that no amount of pressure will force him to name his preferred heir.
He said his party does not believe in imposing leaders on people and he believes that by naming an heir he will be breaking that principle.
The frail looking Mugabe asked God why he had lived so long.
Mugabe’s cake was specially made for him and weighed 93 kilograms. It took at least 10 strong men to carry it.
During the celebrations Mugabe again criticized the west … and raised concerns about the plight of Africans who perish in the Mediterranean Sea and those who are being turned away in the US. The issue of the Mexican wall that is going to be built by new American President Donald Trump and his policy “America for the Americans” came in for a tongue lashing.
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– By SABC TV
