The Chinese handed over the refurbished national stadium at the cost of US$ 10 million. The stadium had fallen into a state of neglect for lack of maintenance; it had been closed to the public for the last three years. This is a fate that had befallen all Zimbabwe’s infrastructure from roads, schools, hospitals and not just the stadium.
How does one justify spending US$ 10 million on refurbishing the national stadium when Pararenyatwa and Harare Hospitals, for example, the country’s biggest referral hospitals are in such a deplorable state there are no proper facilities to take patients’ blood sample let alone x-rays? This is yet another example of tyrannical regimes, accountable to no one, getting its priority wrong. Mugabe and his equally repressive Chinese backers are quite happy to spend millions on a prestige project at the expense of the public good.
China's human rights record is one of the worst in the world, it is hardly surprising then that the Communist regime in China should support other repressive regimes. The biggest mistake was made in 1948 when an inherently repressive regime like the Chinese Communist Party was allowed a permanent seat in the US Security Council and a veto. We the poor in unstable countries prone to tyrannical governments, especially in Africa, have paid dearly for it.
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