Robert Mugabe was once the darling of Beijing.
Please read an interesting news about his filial greed.
SR
Mugabe Finds a Home in
A detested African satrap and his family take refuge in the east
While Zimbabweans, once citizens of one of Africa's most prosperous, food exporting countries, suffer food shortages, cholera epidemics and the world's highest inflation (approx 5,000 percent) the country's first family has been splashing out on shopping and banking trips to Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Attention to their travels was occasioned by an assault on a
Asia Sentinel has now learned that this was a modest visit compared with one last year by Mr and Mrs Mugabe and a huge retinue which occupied two floors of the same Shangri-la Hotel. The hotel bill, running to tens of thousands of US dollars, was paid in cash by a flunky. Under
But either the hotel, controlled by the Kuok Group, failed to notify the authorities, or the government decided to ignore the question of why Mugabe and his family and retinue of bodyguards paid cash. (The reason may well be that no international bank would accept the credit cards of persons banned from entering the
According to reports on Zimbabawe news sites, on this latest occasion US$92,000 in cash was drawn from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe, the broken country's central bank, prior to this trip, for spending on hotels and Grace's favorite activity – shopping. Grace, who is 40 years younger than her 84-year old husband, has on previous occasions attracted attention for her extravagant spending in luxury shops.
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However deserving Bona may be of an education, the fact is that her father's policies have ruined
But thugs and corrupt politicians remain welcome in
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