Matobo — Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe celebrated his 93rd birthday with a lavish party at the weekend, addressing his own mortality in a speech but showing no signs of stepping down. Wearing a black cowboy hat and a blazer bearing images of himself, Mugabe, who is increasingly frail, paused for lengthy periods and mumbled at times as he spoke for more than an hour. "It’s not always easy to predict that, although you are alive this year, you will be alive next year," he said. "It does not matter how healthy you might feel. The decision that you continue to live and enjoy life is that of one personality we call the Almighty God. "We should thank the Almighty God that I was able to live from 92 years last year to 93, but much more than that I was able to live from childhood to this day — that’s a long, long journey." The birthday party, held in a large marquee outside Zimbabwe’s second city Bulawayo, was attended by thousands of officials and Zanu (PF) party supporters. Mugabe ha...
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