Friday 20 May 2011

Mugabe and his entrourage flew five times to Singapore for cataract op - sick joke!

This is a sick joke! So Mugabe had to go all the way to Singapore not once; five times for something as simple as an eye cataract operation? I know the country's health system has but collapsed (and we know who is responsible for that), still the money Mugabe and his entourage spent on one trip to Singapore alone would have paid for a state-of-the-art Eye Hospital in Zimbabwe. Hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans today are blind when only they needed was a cataract operation.

This is a sick joke! So Grace Mugabe is in China being treated for a dislocated hip. There is no doctor in Zimbabwe who can treat that? No doubt it is the Zimbabwe taxpayer who is paying her bill. And no doubt her bill is comparable to what government is spending running all the clinics catering for all the health needs of hundreds of thousands including hundreds with dislocated hips!

This is a sick joke! So Bona Mugabe is still studying in Hong Kong and, I suppose, still staying in the mansion worth US$5m. She must be aiming at having seven degrees, like her father. The Mugabes have reportedly more than 13 farms each worth millions looted from the white farmers and lots of other assets and wealth besides. But no doubt it will be the Zimbabwe taxpayer who pays, directly or otherwise, all Miss Mugabe’s bills. Her annual bill will no doubt be comparable to what government spends on all the students at UZ in a month!

After all the billions of dollars the nation spends educating the children and relatives of the country’s ruling elite one would think these students would be going back to Zimbabwe. None of them are doing that if they can help it. The late deputy CIO Director’s children are reportedly applying for political asylum in UK.
Mugabe has destroyed Zimbabwe’s education and health system and by flying his wife and himself to distant lands for treatment of even the most basic ailments and by sending his children and those of his cronies out of country for their education he is acknowledging this. And yet when the ordinary people with no money to seek their health and education needs outside the country and have paid dearly for his misrule ask for regime change; he is ruthless in his fight to maintain the status quo! How sick is that!?

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