Mugabe's trips justified, says Jonathan Moyo

Information Minister Jonathan Moyo yesterday leapt at the defence of President Robert Mugabe's globe-trotting ways, saying the nonagenarian was elected to govern and not to rest.

Responding to comments on his Twitter account on Mugabe's myriad foreign trips at a time that Zimbabwe is experiencing an economic meltdown, Moyo argued that travelling abroad was part of the President's work.

Although he was supposed to fly out to Algeria on Monday, he delayed his trip by a day, apparently because he was feeling exhausted after his whirlwind travels last week.