Mugabe's children are party animals

President Robert Mugabe has openly admitted having problems with his children whom he said were party crazy and lacked basic self-survival skills.

Mugabe revealed this while addressing thousands of Zanu-PF supporters who gathered at Chinyika Ranch in Zibagwe-Chirumanzu constituency on Friday to witness the official opening of chrome smelting company Africa Chrome Fields.

According to the Standard, Mugabe's two sons Robert and Chatunga have in the past been featured on international online reports as partying animals, allegedly smoking and drinking alcohol while spending good times with lots of friends of both sexes.

Mugabe says his children love their electronic gadgets - and he's not at all happy about it.

"All they want is to go to parties and use electronic gadgets to communicate with friends. They have lots of friends on these gadgets. I see this even with my own children at home," Mugabe was reported as saying.

The 91-year-old leader blamed such delinquent behaviour on schools, which he said were now more interested in educational excellence and forgetting to infuse psychomotor training for the children.

The president's sons are Robert Junior, believed to be around 22 and Chatunga, 18. In 2012 Mugabe, who is a former teacher, admitted that Robert had failed his A-level university entrance exams.