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Africa Subsaharan
Robert Mugabe could contest election as corpse, says wife
2017-02-19
[Guardian] Zimbabwe’s 92-year-old president, Robert Mugabe, should run "as a corpse" in next year’s election if he dies before the vote, his wife has said.

Grace Mugabe accused some ruling Zanu-PF party officials of plotting to take over from her husband and said that if he dies supporters should put his name on the ballot to show their love for him.

"If God decides to take him, then we would rather field him as a corpse," she told thousands of supporters at a rally in Buhera, eastern Zimbabwe. She spoke in the local Shona language.

The president, who will be 93 on Tuesday, has scaled back his public engagements, while his wife, who is 51, has become increasingly visible in politics.
Posted by:Besoeker

#10  #9 - as soon as Bob nears room temp they should stop her from leaving
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-19 17:04  

#9  I was thinking she already bought a plane ticket to Paris so she could share crib notes with Suha Arafat.
Posted by: Raj   2017-02-19 16:37  

#8  Grace is angling to take over. Think 'Evita' but without the music.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-02-19 16:19  

#7  According to a secret memo I found in a dumpster at the Houston Livestock Show, Gracie has contracted with Disney technologists to build an animatronic ZimBob. Sure, it's expensive, but it will keep the money rolling in after the Old Crocodile hisself is gone.
Posted by: SteveS   2017-02-19 14:12  

#6  ...Sounds to me like 'ol Gracie knows something the rest of us don't.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-02-19 11:57  

#5  Didn't a Dem run after dying? McKaskill maybe?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-02-19 10:52  

#4  But he alway took the summer off.

Posted by: Shipman    2017-02-19 08:46  

#3  You forget Lenin who oversaw Soviet Union from his place in the Kremlin wall.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-02-19 08:11  

#2  The old Roman practice of deifying prior Caesars.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-02-19 07:55  

#1  thereby making zimbabwe the world's second necrocracy the first being North Korea where firstly Kim il Sung and then Kim Jong Il were granted eternal ruling posts upon their deaths
Posted by: anon1   2017-02-19 00:20  

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