Harare, Sept 8 (ANI): Whistle blowing website Wikileaks has revealed that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's top advisers regularly had talks with US diplomats, and shared insights into the rivalries within the top ministers of his coalition-government cabinet.
According to the leaks, Mugabe's own inner circle, including Reserve Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, had talks with US diplomats, and revealed the rivalries within Mugabe's long-ruling ZANU-PF Party.
Hw also discussed the rivalry between the top ministers of Mugabe's coalition-government cabinet.
According to the CS Monitor, Gono was quoted, as saying in a February 2006 cable that Mugabe's own wife, Grace, confided to him that her husband is 'out of it about 75 percent of the time.'
The latest Wikileaks documents also claimed that Mugabe, 87, was diagnosed with prostate cancer and warned by doctors in 2008 that he had only five years to live.
According to the reports, Gono divulged his battle with the disease to the former US Ambassador to Harare James McGee, during a private meeting in June 2008.
Meanwhile Mugabe's attorney general, Johannes Tomana, has said that those who spoke with the US embassy including Vice President Joice Mujuru, Gono, and ZANU-PF politburo members, could face prosecution for 'treason'.
"The WikiLeaks appear to show a treasonous collusion between local Zimbabweans and the aggressive international world, particularly the United States," Tomana said.
"With immediate effect, I am going to instruct a team of practicing lawyers to look into the issues that arise from the WikiLeaks," he added. (ANI)
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