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July 2010 Vol 19, Indaba Galleries

Gallery: Mugabe:30 years From a pauper to a Billionaire - Zimbabwe from billions to poverty,disease,fear and hunger

Tue, Aug 17, 2010

So how did Mugabe make all this money?

Gallery: Mugabe:30 years From a pauper to a Billionaire - Zimbabwe from billions to poverty,disease,fear and hunger

While the poor people of Zimbabwe fight for a day's meal, live in exile  this is how the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe lives.

  • Arab artists spent a year decorating the ceilings
  • 3 acres of accommodation
  • Estimated 26 million USD to build
  • 25 en-suite bathrooms
  • Neighbours in Borrowdale, Harare, have been told to sell up and leave to protect Mugabe’s security
  • China has donated the glazed blue tiles that cover the roof.
  • Malaysia has donated the timber
  • there are underground rooms reinforced with concrete
  • It is 3 times the size of the State House.
  • has 44 acres of landscaped grounds
  • A Serbian construction company built it – Energoproject – to a Chinese design. Mugabe said in interview that the Serbian company donated their material and labour
  • 50 crack riot response police guard it on a 24 hour watch

TIME  TO GO MUGABE!

 



By Takeoff Digital

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