Mangwana urges citizens to respect privacy of hospitalised Robert Mugabe Junior
Nick Mangwana
Information Secretary, Nick Mangwana has urged the public to respect the privacy of private citizens after pictures of Robert Tinotenda Mugabe Junior in the hospital went viral on social media.
Robert who is the son of the late former president, Robert Gabriel Mugabe was reportedly hospitalised at a private hospital in Singapore on Saturday after experiencing chest pains.
According to a report, Mugabe was alone when he suffered a collapsed right lung a few hours after he landed in Singapore. He was reportedly ferried to an unnamed Singapore private hospital where he was admitted.
The pictures attracted varying comments with exiled former Tourism minister, Walter Mzembi saying the young Mugabe had made an error by trusting his late “father’s persecutors cosy up to them with such reckless abandon & think you would be safe in such company.”
Mugabe Junior’s brother Chatungwa also took to social media to announce that he told his brother not to play in deep waters by mingling with the current crop of Zanu PF leadership.
“Ndakavaudza blaz kuti kwamava kutambira kunonyudza, manje ava kupazha,” said Chatungwa in response to Mzembi’s tweet.
Speaking on the pictures being shared online, and comments made about it, Mangwana said:
I think we should respect individuals’ right to confidentiality when it comes to health issues, especially where one is a private citizen. The young man is not a public official…
A media commentator Tambanavo Chamanyawi dismissed Mangwana’s sentiments as confessions of ignorance.
“How does he expect people not to be interested in Robert Mugabe Junior’s life when he is a beneficiary of the loot which his father left for them. His huge medical bills at a private medical facility in Singapore is being paid by the tax payers’ money yet Mangwana expect us to show no interest,” said Chamanyawi.
And somehow you concluded that his illness has something to do with rallies he attended 2 months ago?
Robert Jr attended a ZANU PF rally in Chitungwiza in the run-up to the 26 March by-elections where he met President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his son, Emmerson Jr.
He was also pictured eating ice cream at the rally while seating alongside ZANU PF-linked preacher Passion Java.
The late Mugabe died in Singapore “a bitter man” according to his nephew Walter Chidhakwa after he was ousted in a military coup in November 2017
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