{"id":5560,"date":"2015-02-05T13:53:50","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2015-02-05T13:53:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T06:53:50","slug":"mugabe-airport-collapse-pictures-reporters-threatened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/mugabe-airport-collapse-pictures-reporters-threatened\/","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe airport collapse pictures: Reporters threatened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zanu PF\u2019s propaganda machinery was at pains Wednesday to manage President Robert Mugabe\u2019s fall at the Harare International Airport with the octogenarian leader\u2019s security detail ordering journalists to delete images of the incident.<\/p>\n

Mugabe, 91 this month, tumbled down a staircase as he walked off a podium after addressing hundreds of supporters.<\/p>\n

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He had just returned from Ethiopia where he took over the rotating chairmanship of the African Union.<\/p>\n

Presidential spokesperson George Charamba refused to comment saying the incident had nothing to do with the media.<\/p>\n

\u201cZvinei nemi izvozvo (what has that got to do with you)?\u201d he said<\/p>\n

Minutes after the story was picked by international media, Zanu PF’s communication department was also on twitter defending the party leader.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease don’t allow rumours and lies. President Robert Gabriel Mugabe did not fall, he was doing a bounce (like the kids do),\u201d the department said.<\/p>\n

Zanu PF deputy director of information Psychology Maziwisa also wrote that his boss was fit as usual…<\/p>\n

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