Things don’t seem to be getting any better in the land where Z$500 is worth less than a sheet of toilet paper. Inflation is up to 1,600 percent. Bread is becoming unaffordable. And “[t]he 450-odd junior doctors who run the hospitals are in their eighth week of a strike. So are about a quarter of the 100,000 teachers. The civil service is mooting similar action.”
So what is a corrupt dictator to do in such dire times? Why throw a party for himself of course. And the Z$300 million needed for it can easily be found by “deducting money from civil servants’ wages and bullying near-bankrupt businesses for donations.” (Although he deserves credit for not just printing the money needed.
But maybe his printing presses just can’t keep up?) And because its his birthday, 83 year-old and spry looking Robert Mugabe also “imposed a three-month ban on political rallies and demonstrations across large parts of Harare” because of his love for his people.
What a guy!
Hey, when you are the “Most Consistent and Authentic Revolutionary Leader” you get to do what you want.
