Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini has refuted rumors of poisoning.
“I am not poisoned, I am well,” he said on a video released on Monday evening.
In the video released, the king, looking well, explained that he had travelled to Eswatini for a regular medical health check – something that Chief Buthelezi continues to dispute saying that the king crossed the border to “urgently seek medical attention”.
“I’m happy, everything is well-functioning, there is no poison whatsoever. So please people, mostly to the Zulu people, the Zulu royal family also to remind everyone to please don’t listen to everything that people say,” the king said.
🟥WATCH🟥 In a recent video recorded in eSwatini and shared with the SABC by his spokesperson Prince Africa Zulu, AmaZulu King MisuZulu kaZwelithini assured his followers that he is in good health and vehemently denied allegations of poisoning. pic.twitter.com/L6T7gq4t0I
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Over the weekend, the traditional prime minister of Zulu King Misuzulu kaZwelithini stated that the king had traveled to neighboring Eswatini for medical treatment.
Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi also mentioned that this decision came in the wake of the sudden passing of one of the king’s senior advisers, who was also suspected to have been a victim of poisoning.
But in response, the king’s spokesperson, Prince Africa Zulu alleged there was “an orchestrated agenda and a desperate narrative to communicate defamatory and baseless claims of His Majesty’s ill-health”.