Doctors gave up treatment on late former President Robert Mugabe as it turned out age and his advanced State of cancer ailment had gone beyond treatment.

This was revealed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa while addressing a hired group of ZANU PF supporters in New York on Saturday.

Said Mnangagwa, “In fact, when we discussed about the issue (Mugabe’s illness), it turned out that treatment had stopped, doctors had stopped treatment, chemotherapy, one, because of age and also because the cancer had spread and it was not helping anymore.

“He would have come back home, but the family said they wanted to remain. Of course, they would have wanted me to come to Singapore, but also we had our Vice President General (Constantino) Chiwenga, who is in a military hospital in Beijing, who was going into a major operation and those two demands.”

Zimbabwe’s long serving former leader died on 6 September after spending months on treatment in Singapore.