Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has returned as scheduled from a health check in Singapore with ministers describing him as ‘fit and strong’.

President Mugabe had gone for what state media called a regular health check earlier this week. There have been concerns over his health – which you would expect from an 88 year-old man with a job has difficult as his.

TV pictures showed him coming out of an aeroplane and looking energetic, shaking hands with ministers who had come to see him.

We are just glad to have the president back without the speculation that surrounded his last visit to the east.

He has a lot on his plate when he gets back with the fight between Indigenisation and Empowerment ministers Saviour Kasukuwere and Reserve Bank governor Gideon Gono over foreign bank equity.