RSS 2.0 FeedFebruary 2010 vol 6, Featured Articles, National News
Mugabe to celebrate 86th birthday with televised £325,000 lobster feast
Guests will enjoy lobster, prawns and caviar to be washed down with bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Chevas Regal whiskies.
Guests will enjoy lobster, prawns and caviar to be washed down with bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Chevas Regal whiskies.
The 12-hour gala in Bulawayo will feature Jamaican reggae star Sizzla Kalonji who has been flown into the country for the occasion.
The Zimbabwean president celebrated his actual 86th birthday last Sunday and has attended a number of parties including one at the Chinese embassy in the capital Harare.
Many in the rival Movement for Democratic Change have said the party is tasteless as the country suffers acute poverty.
Tendai Biti, MDC finance minister, refused to give public funds towards the cost of the birthday bash so funds were raised from companies and embassies aligned to ZanuPF.
Luke Tamborinyoka, MDC director of information, said the celebrations were inappropriate as the country braced itself for a failed agricultural season with an 11 per cent crop failure due to a prolonged dry spell.
He said: "It is not progressive for any Zimbabwean to join this senseless fray as the country faces imminent drought. It is lavish, careless and extravagant on the part of the organisers that they dedicate $500,000 to one person, an amount which could feed 50 villages.
"It is absolutely self centred for someone to try and nationalise a birthday which is supposed to be private. MDC members will not be part of this circus and we will not be attending."
Morgan Tsvangirai, the MDC prime minister, has not said whether he will attend with a spokesman saying he will "will wait for the day to see".
Last week the EU voted to continue sanctions on Zimbabwe for another year, citing a "lack of progress" in implementing a power-sharing deal.
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