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Mugabe hosts obscene jamboree while nation starves
18 February 2015
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It has been reported that Zanu PF is in the process of raising the sum of US$1 million in order to bank roll Robert Mugabe’s birthday bash scheduled to take place at the plush Elephant Hills Hotel golf course on February 28, 2015.
We have also gathered that several elephants and other wildlife will be slaughtered to feed the crowd that will be commandeered to attend the nonagenarian’s 91st birthday bash. The irony of it all is the fact that the bash will be taking place at a time leading economists have since announced that the average incomes in Zimbabwe are now at their lowest in 60 years. It has also emerged that more than 76% of the country’s adult population is surviving on less than US$200 per month.
While the MDC would like to wish Robert Mugabe a happy 91st birthday on February 21, 2015; we would also like the old man to use his birthday as a moment for serious reflection. At the very ripe age of 91, Robert Mugabe is certainly way past his prime. No matter what his Zanu PF spin doctors might want to say, Mugabe has seen better days and he is now a big liability to the generality of the people of Zimbabwe for as long as he remains as the county’s head of state and chief executive. It doesn’t need rocket science for one to appreciate that a 91 year old man belongs to an old people’s home and not to the State House of a nation.
As the MDC, we are greatly perturbed to learn that instead of focusing on more serious and pressing national issues such as rehabilitating the country’s collapsed public health delivery system as well as the renovation of the nation’s dilapidated road and rail infrastructure, Zanu PF has seen it fit to squeeze the sum of US$I million from the country’s ailing business sector in order to bankroll the nonagenarian’s birthday jamboree in the resort town of Victoria Falls.
The absurdity of it all is further compounded by the rather bizarre demand by the Zanu PF Youth League that Robert Mugabe’s birthday should be declared a national holiday. Zimbabwe is not North Korea where the Dear Leader’s birthday is deified and celebrated as a public holiday. In a short period of 35 years, Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF have successfully managed to run down and trash a country that was at one time the jewel of Africa. From being a proud net food exporter and bread basket of Southern Africa at independence in April , 1980, Mugabe and Zanu PF have mismanaged the country and in the process ; they have reduced a once proud nation with a sophisticated mixed economy into a basket case. That is the tragic and sad legacy of Robert Mugabe’s rule in Zimbabwe.
The MDC calls upon the proposed Robert Mugabe birthday bash scheduled to take place in Victoria Falls on February 28, 2015 to be called off. All the money that has been collected to bankroll this obscene jamboree should be immediately channelled towards rehabilitating the collapsed public hospitals, clinics and rural schools in Matebeleland North province. Any food items and other materials that have been ‘’donated’’ for Mugabe’s birthday bash should be handed over to the Jairos Jiri centre and other orphanages in Bulawayo.
The majority of the people of Zimbabwe are living in penury, squalor and destitution and thus; it would be grossly offensive for Robert Mugabe and a few of his hangers – on to wine and dine at the Mosi – a – Tunya on Saturday , February 28 , 2015. It is high time that the ZanuPF regime shows some respect and empathy for the toiling masses of Zimbabwe.

37 Replies to “Mugabe hosts obscene jamboree while nation starves”

  5. Shure kunotariswa nevari kumajeri. Kuno tinotarisa mberi chete. Haaa kwakanaka hako. Tatenda mabvunza. Chiendai kuma mubvunzewo variko.

  6. Shure kunotariswa nevari kumajeri. Kuno tinotarisa mberi chete. Haaa kwakanaka hako. Tatenda mabvunza. Chiendai kuma mubvunzewo variko.

  8. In your unbridled hatred of Bob, have you ever stopped to ask yourself if Zimbos are doing themselves a favour by spending $14mn on hair-pieces??!! If Zim was as bad as you want us to believe, you would have thought that every cent was being spent on bare essentials like food!! See how many ordinary citizens pack the venues of Zim dancehall shows or pleasure spots like kwaMereki, where, by the way, entrance is NOT free!!

  9. In your unbridled hatred of Bob, have you ever stopped to ask yourself if Zimbos are doing themselves a favour by spending $14mn on hair-pieces??!! If Zim was as bad as you want us to believe, you would have thought that every cent was being spent on bare essentials like food!! See how many ordinary citizens pack the venues of Zim dancehall shows or pleasure spots like kwaMereki, where, by the way, entrance is NOT free!!

  10. Ah, unogarepiko kusisina nyama, maveggie, huku kana mhuka dzesango zvadzo??!! Asi hunyope wainetsa; inga mvura zvayakanaya wani gore rapera??!!

  11. MDC yanyatsopererwa, yaguma kufunga!! Even if the birthday bash was to be cancelled altogether do you imagine that the $1mn thus saved would solve Zim’s problems??!! Really??!!
    In case you haven’t been reading the papers, Zimbos have been spending $14mn on hair-pieces, and $400mn on 2nd hand ex-Jap jalopies….

  12. MDC yanyatsopererwa, yaguma kufunga!! Even if the birthday bash was to be cancelled altogether do you imagine that the $1mn thus saved would solve Zim’s problems??!! Really??!!
    In case you haven’t been reading the papers, Zimbos have been spending $14mn on hair-pieces, and $400mn on 2nd hand ex-Jap jalopies….

  15. Mugabe is as keen for a good harvest as any serious farmer. Do not blame him for what he is not guilty of.

  16. Mugabe is as keen for a good harvest as any serious farmer. Do not blame him for what he is not guilty of.

  21. So why NOT use the same youth to raise the work-ethic of farmers so they can use the land allocated to them to produce food? The rule should be that if you do not have experience of farming, you should not be allowed to be on a farm pretending to farm.
    The youth should go round dishing out output tariffs and collecting evidence of farming and if there is none then the farmer should move from the farm or show that he/she can have a manager. The only farmers allowed to be lazy should be those who have title deeds. The people on LEASE are on public land and should treat it as employment with benefits.
    There is no need, there has never been need for Zim to be described as STARVING. My point was it is not Mugabe’s fault that Zim is short of Agri products, be they fruits, grain, veg, or commercial crops like cotton. What are we waiting for Mugabe to do that we cannot do ourselves?

  22. So why NOT use the same youth to raise the work-ethic of farmers so they can use the land allocated to them to produce food? The rule should be that if you do not have experience of farming, you should not be allowed to be on a farm pretending to farm.
    The youth should go round dishing out output tariffs and collecting evidence of farming and if there is none then the farmer should move from the farm or show that he/she can have a manager. The only farmers allowed to be lazy should be those who have title deeds. The people on LEASE are on public land and should treat it as employment with benefits.
    There is no need, there has never been need for Zim to be described as STARVING. My point was it is not Mugabe’s fault that Zim is short of Agri products, be they fruits, grain, veg, or commercial crops like cotton. What are we waiting for Mugabe to do that we cannot do ourselves?

  26. Perhaps we will see menacing drones hovering over the tents ?????? They can be bought for a grand – destructive to Satan’s feast

  27. Perhaps we will see menacing drones hovering over the tents ?????? They can be bought for a grand – destructive to Satan’s feast

  28. How naive! Have you ever had these Zanu PF thugs at your door asking for a donation and you refused to pay?
    Whatever the Zanu PF youths raise the state will be spending $2 to $3 million in getting Mugabe and his entourage to Vict Falls and back!

  29. How naive! Have you ever had these Zanu PF thugs at your door asking for a donation and you refused to pay?
    Whatever the Zanu PF youths raise the state will be spending $2 to $3 million in getting Mugabe and his entourage to Vict Falls and back!

  32. The country’s economy is in total meltdown and Mugabe is spending money as if there is no tomorrow! This is sheer madness! The tyrant knows he has failed to achieve gutsa ruzhinji (mass prosperity) and has given up and now he does not care about anyone and is going out of his way to enjoy himself at the nation’s expense!

  33. The country’s economy is in total meltdown and Mugabe is spending money as if there is no tomorrow! This is sheer madness! The tyrant knows he has failed to achieve gutsa ruzhinji (mass prosperity) and has given up and now he does not care about anyone and is going out of his way to enjoy himself at the nation’s expense!

  34. Why is the nation starving though? Are we waiting for Mugabe to come and plough our fields for us, tender the crops and then harvest for us or what? What is he supposed to do to feed the nation? Mugabe is not guilty on this one. Every year he asks for donations and people pay for him to have fun.
    If they do not like to starve, they should work in their fields.
    If the do not want him to have his bash, they should not finance it.
    Do not keep blaming this senile old man for things he has not done. He is not even aware people are staving. He knows he gave many of them land to grow things on and told them “Life is from the soil.” They did not ask questions so he thought they had understood and left them to it.
    Now the GMB is empty, the family granaries are empty, there are no vegetables, no meat, no chickens, no wild animals, no wild fruit, nothing. Why? Maybe next year Mugabe will buy a tractor and come to plough for each one of us.

  35. Why is the nation starving though? Are we waiting for Mugabe to come and plough our fields for us, tender the crops and then harvest for us or what? What is he supposed to do to feed the nation? Mugabe is not guilty on this one. Every year he asks for donations and people pay for him to have fun.
    If they do not like to starve, they should work in their fields.
    If the do not want him to have his bash, they should not finance it.
    Do not keep blaming this senile old man for things he has not done. He is not even aware people are staving. He knows he gave many of them land to grow things on and told them “Life is from the soil.” They did not ask questions so he thought they had understood and left them to it.
    Now the GMB is empty, the family granaries are empty, there are no vegetables, no meat, no chickens, no wild animals, no wild fruit, nothing. Why? Maybe next year Mugabe will buy a tractor and come to plough for each one of us.

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