'Oldest man' who taught tyrant Mugabe as a schoolboy

A TEACHER has claimed he is the world's oldest man at 115 - and says he taught Zimbabwean despot Robert Mugabe as a schoolboy.

Oscar Munyoro Katsukunya says he was born in 1897 in Kutama, around 30 miles west of the capital Harare.

The wheelchair-bound pensioner claims he vividly remembers teaching Mugabe in 1931 at a primary school in Zvimba, where the brutal dictator grew up.

At the time, Mr Katsukunya was 34 years old - and Mugabe was aged just seven.

Speaking to Zimbabwe Broadcast Corporation, the retired teacher said he remembered Mugabe as "an intelligent young boy".

During the interview, the frail family man told how he watched his former pupil develop from a young student into a "freedom fighter".       Read Here