Stop this Tsvangirai love affair 'hallabaloo' - Mugabe

President Mugabe yesterday shocked all and sundry when he urged the media to back off and stop talking about PM Morgan Tsvangirai's love affairs.

He said people were entitled to choose their brides and grooms.

Speaking at the official launch of the Schweppes management and employee share option scheme at the Schweppes plant yesterday, President Mugabe said Tsvangirai's love life and choices did not justify the "hullabaloo" in the media, adding the PM was free to choose his bride.

"..He who wants many wives, one or 2 its his own choice…if one chooses his wife, why should people mind about that?

Its his own choice. Now newspapers write about that (the PM's marriage) and are on his case, why?" he queried.

When Presidents Robert Mugabe's affair with Grace Mugabe was exposed by the media, he was so furious that he went on to ask the nation if they played trumpets when they got married. Some Zimbabweans think the same should apply to Premier Morgan Tsvangirai.

"Imi pamakaroora makaridza mabhoswo here," Mugabe asked on national television and the quote was widely circulated in Zimbabwe and abroad.