The birthday of former Zimbabwe's President Robert Gabriel Mugabe has been declared a national holiday by the new government. According to a report by The Herald, February 21, which is the date Mugabe was born, will now be a National Youth Day in Zimbabwe.

The move to make Mugabe's birthday a public holiday was reportedly arrived at after intense lobbying within the ruling party Zanu-PF, which ironically had sacked Mugabe and his wife Grace.

Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who officially took office on Friday, November 24, has indicated that he will still work closely with the former president, who happened to be his political mentor.

"To me personally, he remains a father, mentor, comrade-in-arms and my leader," Mnangagwa said while giving his acceptance speech during his swearing in ceremony.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Photo: Facebook/Emmerson Mnangagwa. As earlier reported by Tuko.co.ke, the 93-year-old ex-president, whose official date of birth is February 21, 1924, has also been assigned new role in government.

"Mugabe will continue to have a role to play in Zimbabwean politics," Father Fidelis Mukonori, the Jesuit priest behind the negotiations that led to Mugabe's resignation disclosed to BBC.


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Bob is the real deal. His juju man must be very powerful.

darkenkach:
Bob is the real deal. His juju man must be very powerful.

Zimbabweans don't hate Mugabe, they like him and see him as the father of the nation. It's Gucci Grace they hate so much. Without Gucci Grace, no idiotic coup for happen.


Dem no want her to be President. Grace was busy insulting powerful men, she called the current president snake and said she would cut off the head of the snake. She even said the Army Chief will be sacked and nothing would happen

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