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Mugabe Disheartened By Problematic, Notorious Son
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s remarks that he had problems with his teenage son Chatunga Bellarmine’s attitude towards school have proven that the boy is somehow truant.
The development not only comes as our correspondent in February reported that the youngster had been ejected from a top-Harare school St Georges College, but vindicates the paper’s extremely loved expose.
By his own admission — in a recent South African Broadcasting Corporation documentary — Chatunga spends about 85 percent of his time on computer games.
With this errant behaviour and one not so consistent with school-going kids, his elderly father is grossly disheartened.
“He has not made me happy in the way he takes to his studies. He should be more serious than he is at the moment,” said Mugabe, a former teacher and vaunted stickler of discipline.
“I don’t quarrel with him, nor do I raise my hand to slap him. Never. I leave that to the mother. But he has not made me happy in the way he takes his studies,” the Zanu PF leader said.
Chatunga has failed to take a leaf from his older sister Bona, a postgraduate student who is the president’s delight, whom the 89-year-old leader describes as “very obedient” and “absolutely trustworthy.”
In 2009, Chatunga reportedly flunked his Grade seven examinations managing to score 14 units in the examinations at the prestigious Hartmann House. He ranked among the few who failed.
While Mugabe was a high-flier at school earning several academic achievements, his two sons, Chatunga and older brother Robert, have not matched his standards. Observers say his daughter Bona, seem to be the only one of his three children who bears his traits.
Bona graduated from City University in Hong Kong with Business Administration (Honours) degree in Accountancy and is studying towards a Masters. After Robert flunked his exams, Mugabe chuckled that he had become an “undertaker”, local slang for achieving ungraded results.
The First Lady, a former secretary to Mugabe, dropped out of a UK university, where she was studying for a Bachelor of Arts (English) degree.
She reportedly failed most of her examinations – News Day.
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CALLED WISE
June 19, 2013 at 6:04 am
THAT KIND OF SEED IS ALWAYS FOUND IN MANY IF NOT ANY FAMILY BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT SOME OF THAT TYPE(STURBORN,UNEDUCATED,TROUBLE-MAKER….) COME TO CHANGE LATER AND MAKE IT IN LIFE.
WE ARE NOT TOLD HOW OLD THE BOY CHATUNGA IS BUT SOON OR LATER, HE WILL GROW MINDLY.
Kabila
June 19, 2013 at 8:54 am
Wel, his father has stolen enough to last generations yet born. Who knows how much money daddy president has deposited in his account that he see sense in studies at his age. Its a shame.
Bush Doctor
June 19, 2013 at 10:13 am
So the boys took after their mother eh?
CHIMBWILI kashimba
June 19, 2013 at 10:40 am
He should take a DNA test, those are not the sons or on the reverce, the daughter is not his.
k1
June 19, 2013 at 10:50 am
Chimbwili my bro u ar 100% rite,nw go & talk 2 kalu
miker
June 19, 2013 at 1:44 pm
we had one in zambia the problem he died very yong so mr president be carefull teach your son how to be a good man in life
Y2N
June 19, 2013 at 3:54 pm
The man is over 80 years and has a teen son, i thik balimu tutila mweeee.
King
June 19, 2013 at 7:49 pm
Just like RB his children are not even in teen years but the man is around 85,how possible.
baice
June 19, 2013 at 7:22 pm
Like father like son
truthful
June 20, 2013 at 9:18 am
the boy’s dulleness is from his mother!
Mwaba Shani mwebena Africa
June 20, 2013 at 9:43 am
I knew that one african would say this! When a child does well the father always goes “my child this, my child that”,when a child does wrong, the father detaches himself and will say “your Child this,your child that” to the mother and say all the bad that the child is taken after the mother.I know you bwino sana.