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'I don't feel 83'
22/02/2007 14:44 - (SA)
Harare - President Mugabe celebrated his 83rd birthday on Wednesday saying he does not feel the age.
"Eighty-three is nothing, I am not yet 100. I don't feel it (being 83) as I move from here to here. Just now I don't feel it, I am up and about. To the kids I say I am only 8 plus 3 and that is not much by way of age. But I thank God for it," said Mugabe on The Herald Online.
He was speaking at a party at State House organised by the First Lady Grace Mugabe and attended by family members, senior officials from the Office of the President and Cabinet and workers from Zimbabwe House and State House.
Mugabe said the occasion was a time for him to reflect on his life and the course of his future.
"That person being honoured must not really just thank but also look back and say the path we have walked together has been a path of friendship, a togetherness of the mission of which we were put together by the circumstances of government or family. So it overwhelms one because of that meaningful friendship and comradeship.
The president urged workers in his office to remain united because they had a big mission to accomplish.
He said efforts would be made to ensure workers were well-looked after because everyone from the gardener right up to the most senior official were important.
The distribution of government programmes must be equal nationwide, Mugabe said.
The Chief Secretary to the president and cabinet Dr Misheck Sibanda presented Mugabe with a leopard trophy and the Chinese Ambassador to Zimbabwe Yuan Nansheng presented him with a luxury coach for the family made by First Auto Works.
Nansheng said he hoped the President and the First Family would enjoy the bus.
The bus is the first to be designed for a foreign head of State by FAW, which has supplied buses to Zupco.
- News24
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