During the opening of
Zimbabwe's parliament, the president Robert Mugabe has delivered a month-old
speech by accident.
Ninety-one year old
president delivered the speech for the first time last month as a state of the
nation address - his first in eight years.
At the time he was booed by
opposition MPs, but Mr Mugabe was met with silence from his audience as he
rattled off the same address on Tuesday.
He delivered the speech
from start to finish without realising his error.
Opposition MPs say the
gaffe shows Mr Mugabe is "too old" to rule the country effectively.
"We have a 91-year-old
president who has a fading memory, who, if he had sharpened up his memory would
have immediately picked it up that this speech was actually a stale
speech," said Obert Gutu, a spokesman for the Movement for Democratic
Change.
"But the mere fact
that he went on and on and on up until the very end, reading an old speech,
shows beyond a shadow of a doubt that Robert Mugabe is too old.
"The rigours of his
presidential office are too much for him, and ... at the advanced age of 91 (he)
should do the honourable thing and step down from office."
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