Despite failing find money of our own to assist the vulnerable, when the time came for Mugabe to blow out 90 candles on a cake the size of a snooker table, Zanu (PF) had very little trouble finding the cash – $1M by unofficial estimates – and this only 2 months after the party squandered $3M at its December congress.
No longer are Mugabe’s lickspittles merely content with capturing and presenting him with pangolins. Apart from children parroting the obsequious poems of their parents, he received a bejewelled throne, which state media will have us believe was carved ‘for free,’ by an artist. As if there was ever a free diamond or free ounce of gold on this planet.