28 fevereiro 2009

Mugabe faz 85 anos e mantém mesmas atitudes

(Enquanto o Povo passa fome Mugabe devora caviar: foto daqui onde podem ver mais fotos da festa)

Costuma-se a dizer que a idade é um posto e sinónimo de maturidade e clarividência.

Daí que em África se reconheça aos Mais Velhos o direito à sensata sabedoria e prudência.

Provavelmente, sê-lo-ia em pessoas que dessem mostras disso, o que não é o caso do senhor Robert Mugabe que hoje completou 85 anos em displicente festão de cerca de
250 mil dólares norte-americanos e unicamente pagos em dólares norte-americanos pelos convivas.

Entre eles, estava previsto a ida do primeiro-ministro Morgan Tsvangirai. Será que foi e pagou a sua quota-parte da festa? Quero crer, ou espero, que não tenha ido ou pago porque isso seria uma afronta a todo o Povo zimbabueano que padece de fome, miséria e doença enquanto o déspota presidente Mugabe se alardeia em festas e
compra casas luxuosas na Ásia. (A ANGOP diz que ia, o portal do Diário IOL diz que esteve ausente).

E como o senhor Mugabe não consegue estar, onde quer que seja, sem dizer baboseiras aqui vai mais uma dita hoje na sua “pequena e singela” festa dada pelos seus “
pobres correligionários”: as “propriedades agrícolas dos brancos” vão continuar ao abrigo da sua tão contestada lei “aquisição das terra” e dadas “aos novos agricultores negros”, na sua quase totalidade – ou mesmo totalidade – partidários ex-combatentes do partido de Mugabe.

Bem clama o primeiro-ministro Tsvangirai para que se pare com os ataques aos agricultores brancos mas Mugabe continua a fazer ouvidos de mercador. Para ele os brancos são todos britânicos mesmo que sejam comprovadamente zimbabueanos e estejam nomeados para o Governo. Recordemos a detenção por “
terrorismo” de um vice-ministro proposto pelo MDC à sua chegada ao aeroporto de Harare, para a tomada de posse…

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Anónimo disse...

ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace, has blown an estimated £2,1 MILLION fortune feeding her insatiable love for shopping.
According to The Sun, Britain's biggest circulating newspaper with over 3 million readers daily, her biggest extravagance was blowing a cool £75 000 in TWO hours in Paris last year.
The paper named Grace in a list of spouses of the rich and famous who were "big spenders", documenting how the 40-year-old former secretary to Mugabe has "battered" the 80-year-old leader's wallet.
"Grace has managed to work her way through an estimated £2,1 million during her frequent shopping sprees," the paper said.
"The biggest battering for her husband's wallet was when Gucci addict Grace blew an estimated £75 000 in just two hours in Paris fashion houses during a jaunt last year.
"And Grace's doting husband Robert - 40 years her senior - also splashed out on a lavishly-equipped DC-9 airliner once owned by Playboy baron Hugh Hefner, as a present for her."
Grace's lavish spending has been a major discussion point in Zimbabwe for years. She has been to almost all the famous fashion houses in the world, including Harrods in London which was her favourite stop before the European Union barred her an her husband from travelling there over human rights violations.
Grace is definitely in good company in The Sun's "merry wives of wonga" list. Also listed is Imelda Marcos, wife of the late Phillippines dictator Ferdinand Marcos. She reputedly owns 3 000 pairs of designer shoes.
Grace's indulgencies appear all the more vulgar in Zimbabwe where almost half the country's population is in need of food aid.
Asked recently how she justified travelling to Europe to spend thousands on Ferragamo shoes while her people starved, she replied simply: "I have very narrow feet, so I wear only Ferragamo."
Grace began regularly commandeering jets from state airline Air Zimbabwe to ferry her around the world on spending sprees, tearing out seats on return flights to accommodate the spoils of her trip. The UK Daily Mirror speculated recently that they are thought to have spent £200 million on jet fuel.
In London, Grace would insist on taking over a suite at the exclusive Claridge's Hotel. Bodyguards in tow, she would cruise through Harrods before piling her purchases into her chauffeur-driven Mercedes.
On one of her London shopping sprees Grace spent £40,000 in an afternoon. At home the spending was just as spectacular.
Before the couple were married, Grace was embroiled in controversy after using £500,000 of government funds to build a 30-bedroom mansion in the capital Harare. She named it Gracelands, in honour of herself and her hero Elvis Presley.
The High Court ruled the loans taken out on the property were illegal but when Grace sold the mansion to the Libyan Government for £3 million in 2000, she kept the profits.
A year after Gracelands was sold, Grace demanded that her husband start work on a new £6million mansion outside Harare. And she went on a spending spree to kit it out. The three-storey home was fitted with imported Italian sunken baths and oriental rugs. It also has a swimming pool.

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