'I was born in the year of great harvest....' - President Mugabe (as Baba Jukwa predicts 'doom for the President')

"I was born in the year of great harvest...." President Mugabe (as Baba Jukwa predicts "doom for the President"

President Robert Mugabe told a crowd of over 60 000 people gathered to celebrate his 90th birthday that his mother always told him that he was born in the year if a great harvest and he is celebrating his 90th birthday in the year of great harvest.

"My mother always told me that I was born in the year of great harvest (gore remanhanga) and this year looks exactly to be the year of great harvest," said the President arousing many superstitious believers.

In a discussion with an elderly lady from Makokoba Township shortly after the president's speech, the 83 year old gogo who we shall call Gogo MaMhlanga said that in African culture history doesn't repeat itself just coincidentally but for a more or less similar effect.

"In African theory when historic occurrences repeat themselves something is certainly bound to happen along the lines of what happened in the first occurrence," said the old lady.

Gogo MaMhlanga says that when elderly people speak their words must be listened to very attentively as every word said has a deep meaning which some people may understand a little later. Pressed to explain what she means by that in relation to the President's statement Gogo MaMhlanga reluctantly said maybe the President could be implying that since he was born in the year of a great harvest he might just equally pass on in this year of great harvest (gore remanhanga).

"I am not saying the President will die this year, "ungizwe kuhle wena mtwana" (hear me very well young man), but when we elderly people speak we don't just speak sometimes it takes big minds to understand what we are saying. So maybe the President has an inner feeling that the great harvest is a farewell to him as he was welcomed by a great harvest," said the old lady somehow getting uncomfortable at being pressed to explain.

"This year there has been a lot of rain through out the country. Every little corner of the country got heavy rains and this year certainly we will harvest more than we have ever harvested before," said the President.

"Even today as we were gathering here there was a small shower which cleared quickly to allow us to mark this great event," said the president.

Asked for a comment a Bulawayo popular cultural activists who out rightly refused to be named said that in Ndebele culture heavy rains of this nature are always associated with what he called "ukugeza inyawo zomuntu omdala" (washing foot prints of a very big person). The cultural activist and social commentator also refused to place his head on the block and say exactly how the said Ndebele adage relates to the President's assertion of him born in the year of heavy rains with this year's heavy rains.

"All I can say is that one needs to ask the questions why the President had to put across the similarity of his year of birth to this current, secondly, ask yourself why the President's mother would always remind him that he was born in the year of great harvest?" Diced around the culture and superstition inclined man.

"Perhaps its worth noting the old lady's warning that elderly people don't just say things for nothing" he concluded.

Since the beginning of the year, media and social networks have been flooded with numerous stories of President Robert Mugabe's health. Top of these being Facebook unknown face calling himself Baba Jukwa who continues to insinuate that the President's health is so bad that he may certainly not see the year over. In fact, at the beginning of the year while President Mugabe was on leave in the Far East, Baba Jukwa turned the world upside down spreading news that President Mugabe had been rushed out of the country to Singapore for medical attention and was most likely not make it back to the country alive.

Besides his way ward privious warnings, the adamant Baba Jukwa, in his latest post further states that things are certainly not well with the President and anything bad (like death) may befall the president any time soon.

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Extract of Baba Jukwa's latest Facebook post on the President's health:

*Mugabe health update:

Professional Medical Analysis (Unedited)

Hi Baba Jukwa, To clarify things for our fellow Zimbabweans regarding Mugabe's health let me say this:

1. Anyone who watched the news this week should have noticed a difference in the manner in which RGM spoke. He clearly had slurred speech and this only means one thing – HAS HAD A RECENT STROKE. 2. His facial symmetry is no-longer the same – he has a slight droop to his right – again this indicates that he has had a stroke. 3. When he tried to lift his right hand as he normally does – he lost control of this right hand. (and eventually had to put his arms at the back of the chair) – again all indicates that he has had a stroke.

So yes, Zimbabweans it is time we start to pay some attention to BJ, without him we would be darkness! Anyone with some medical knowledge will know that once you have had a stroke, you are bound if not guaranteed to have another and they increase in severity with each subsequent event – so it is now a matter of time. Yes there is treatment for his condition. Warfarin ( a blood thinner) being the best his doctors can put him on at his age – but this drug is associated with internal bleeding and renal failure. So with or no treatment – either way it is doom for Robert Mugabe…

Asijiki! Ndatenda Baba Jukwa