Mugabe party mocks starving nation

The Australian reports:

Robert Mugabe's endlessly proclaimed illusion of Zimbabwean democracy, prosperity and health and education for all reached its most surreal extreme at a party held yesterday costing 300m Zimbabwe dollars to celebrate his 83rd birthday.
This sum would have been worth £150,000 when officials of the ruling Zanu-PF began collecting for the event in December, but by this weekend it was down to £23,000, so fast is the currency falling in value.

Mugabe mingled with the 20,000 guests in the Mboka football stadium in the city of Gweru and used a lengthy speech to condemn homosexuality. The party was shown on national television, although viewers in Harare suffered a power cut.

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