New Video of Mugabe Falling Down Again “For Nandos Chicken”
19 February 2015
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President Robert Mugabe has been featured in another alleged mock Nandos video advert which shows him crashing down.
The video has been circulating on social network Whatsapp but has been disowned by the Nandos company.

The fast food outfit caused a stir in 2011 after it released another motion picture depicting Mugabe as a lone dictator deserted through the angel of death following the departure of among others Muammar Gaddafi, Sadam Hussein, Iddi Amin, and PW Botha.
The company was forced to pull the advert down after protests from the Zimbabwean Government and threats to shut down Nandos Zimbabwe franchises.
This time a video has been released carries the words, “falling for our chicken is risky business.” The line is followed by a suggestive meme of Mugabe’s fall, then the line: “If you know what we mean”, after which comes the “Nandos flame grilled chicken” legendary undersigning.
Mugabe fell at Harare International Airport two weeks ago after returning from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Nando’s, with branches in more than 30 countries, said in a statement yesterday it had been alerted of a fake Nandos’ advertisement depicting Mugabe’s recent public fall being shared on social media.
“This constitutes an abuse of our brand and trademarks and we distance ourselves from this material,” the fastfood outlet said.
“Nando’s Zimbabwe would like to assure the people of Zimbabwe that this advertisement was neither created nor sanctioned by Nando’s. We appeal to our fans and customers not to share this advertisement in the mistaken belief that it is a creation or product of Nando’s.”
Following Mugabe’s fall, State security agents forced photojournalists to delete the pictures and videos, but it didn’t serve any purpose as the pictures found their way into the public domain.
In no time, memes of Mugabe’s fall found their way onto the social scene as well.
He was caricatured chasing the ball in a football game between English clubs Liverpool and Chelsea, on the dance floor, on the starting line of a 100m track race alongside the likes of Usain Bolt, on the back of a horse, being chased by a hippo, water surfing, in American singer Beyonce’s video and many others.