Mugabe suffering from prostrate cancer?

Sunday Times:

Robert Mugabe flew to the Far East last week for the kind of medical treatment no longer available in his run-down hospitals in Zimbabwe, leaving loyalists in the ruling party to wonder who was really in charge with just a month to go before a run-off in the country’s presidential election.

Sources close to the government said the 84-year-old president travelled to Singapore on Wednesday to undergo tests for prostate cancer. He was due to return home today.

Yesterday the opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, also returned to Harare, the capital, with the aim of defeating Mugabe in the election on June 27. Tsvangirai had planned to arrive last weekend but pulled out after his party announced he was on an army hit list.

For Mugabe — who has been in power for 28 years but faces a fight for his political life after losing the first round to Tsvangirai in March — to leave last week suggested the visit was urgent. He is thought to have had cancer for some time; observers said the trip might indicate a deterioration in his condition.

Sources close to the government said the tests were being conducted by a top Malaysian urologist who was also known to have provided “certain financial services” for Mugabe.

In recent years the Far East has become a favourite destination of the president and his much younger wife, Grace, who are banned from Europe and America. Most of their assets were transferred to the region after western sanctions were imposed. Family members continue to be educated there and Mugabe has a close relationship with Mahathir Mohamad, the former Malaysian prime minister.

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Mahathir is a bit of a mad hatter in his own right. Prostrate cancer is successfully treated in most cases in the US. In the UK the success rate is much lower. I suspect the success rate in Zimbabwe is non existent, which is why he had to leave. I wonder if he had to pay extra for the weight of all the cash he had to carry because of Zimbabwe inflation.