BREAKING: Zimbabwe's Mugabe 'ready to die for what is correct', nephew tells us at Reuters

NOVEMBER 18, 2017  13H:55 GMT/UTC/ZULU TIME

by Susan Peterson and Biodun Iginla, BBC News and Reuters, JOHANNESBURG 

JOHANNESBURG - Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace are “ready to die for what is correct” and have no intention of stepping down in order to legitimize this week’s military coup, his nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, said on Saturday.

Protesters calling for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe to step down take to the streets in Harare, Zimbabwe, November 18, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo

Speaking to us at Reuters from a secret location in South Africa, Zhuwao said Mugabe had hardly slept since the military seized power on Wednesday but his health was otherwise “good”.