'I am not going anywhere'

- Mugabe

Africa's oldest ruler - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay on in office, in spite of calls for him to step down.

At a 'Million Man March' organised in his support by youths of the ruling party - ZANU-PF, 92-year old Mugabe said: "I belong to my people. I don't like to be American. I am not a Yankee. I am not a Briton... I belong to Zimbabwe... I am at the service of the people. If the people feel I should go, I go. But at the moment where do you want me to go? I am not going anywhere."

The march had nowhere near the One million people expected, with a BBC Correspondent saying that the audience hit about 50,000 at one time. It was not long before the crowd fizzled out.

Mugabe's wife - First Lady Grace Mugabe who in the past said she would either push her husband to work in a wheelbarrow or have a special wheelchair designed for him, suggested that her husband should rule posthumously from his grave.

“President Mugabe is an unparalleled leader and because you have stuck to principle even in the face of sanctions, your people now believe you. We want you to remain our leader.

“We want you to lead this country from your grave, while you lie at the National Heroes’ Acre,” she said.

ZANU-PF Youth leader, Kudzai Chipanga called on Mugabe to lead “till death do us part.”

Mugabe is the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence from Britain in 1980.

He says he wants to live to 100 and remains fit, denying media reports that he has prostate cancer.