George Charamba, spokesman for Zimbabwe’s President, Robert Mugabe, said the president read out the wrong speech at the opening of the country’s parliament on Tuesday.

Charamba blamed a mix-up in Mugabe’s office for the error.
“The mix-up happened in his secretarial office, therefore, the delivery in parliament should be set aside,” the spokesman said.

Mugabe had delivered the same speech during a state of the nation address on August 25 in which he pinned his hopes on China to help revive Zimbabwe’s struggling economy.

Charamba said Mugabe would read the correct speech later at a Harare hotel