The son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been hospitalised at a private hospital in Singapore after allegedly suffering a collapsed lung, according to reports monitored here on Monday.
An unconfirmed report by a local online publication said Robert Mugabe Junior was admitted at the hospital after he suffered a collapsed lung hours after he arrived in Singapore on Saturday.
The former president’s son is said to have undergone a successful operation on Sunday and is recovering well.
The report quoted exiled former Zimbabwe foreign minister Walter Mzembi as hinting that the 30-year-old Mugabe may have been poisoned by government agents or ruling ZANU PF officials.
“It was always careless, too soon to trust your own fathers’ persecutors cosy up to them with such reckless abandon & think you would be safe in such company,” Mzembi tweeted in apparent reference to President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior ZANU PF officials.
Mnangagwa ousted former president Mugabe from power in an army-backed rebellion in November 2017.
Robert Mugabe junior was seen associating with ZANU PF officials at a campaign rally addressed by Mnangagwa ahead of parliamentary by-elections in March.
“Preserve the family lineage and cut the political adolescence! We pray for wisdom,” Mzembi added.
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