Zim envoy denies Mugabe's son enrolled at Bishops

Zim envoy denies Mugabe's son enrolled at Bishops

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By Staff Reporter

ZIMBABWE'S ambassador to South Africa has described as "malignant hogwash" reports that access to a Springboks' practice session at Bishops College were blocked because Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's son was being enrolled at the school.

"The South African media obsession with Zimbabwe is extremely nauseating to say the least," Simon Khaya Moyo said in a statement on Thursday.

"The story in today's newspapers that hundreds of fans were barred from attending the 'open' Bok practice at Bishops yesterday (Wednesday) because Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's son was being enrolled at the same time is malignant hogwash.

"President Mugabe has no son who enrolled at Bishops," said Moyo, adding that the story was "pure fiction" and placed the profession of journalism "into shame".

"Leave Zimbabwe alone, and President Mugabe's family is entitled to peace," he concluded.

On Wednesday, after the public was barred from watching the Boks practice for their game against Ireland on Saturday, coach Jake White said: "I was phoned this morning and told that Grace Mugabe was coming to the school to enrol her son. I left it in their hands to handle. I just think it was a miscommunication."

Spectators were eventually allowed in to watch.

A statement issued on behalf of Grant Nupen, the principal of the elite private school in Cape Town's Rondebosch, said the school had not been approached to enrol Mugabe's son and added that security measures during the Springbok training session were "merely a matter of routine".
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