via Mugabe returns empty handed | The Zimbabwean 3 September 2014 by Jera
Robert Mugabe, a frail man in his senior years, endured a 21,000km flight to China and back, taking with him Africa’s most famous shopper, Grace and the enfant terrible, Chatunga. Mugabe’s youngest son was expelled from St Georges College and recently made the society pages for his nightclub escapades in which he is photographed surrounded by an infestation of young women and smoking what may or may not be cigarettes.
There was no chance that mummy and daddy could leave him home alone, unattended. Also travelling at the expense of the taxpayers were presidential spokesman George Charamba, tourism minister, Walter Mzembi and a coterie of sycophants. Ahead of Mugabe’s trip to China, there had been rumours of a multi-billion bailout package.
Charamba had earlier denied that the president had gone on a begging trip, but China’s parting gift to Zimbabwe underscored the beggar-and-benefactor relationship. Rather than the anticipated cart-full of Chinese Yuan, Mugabe’s ‘fair weather friend’ donated a measly $24M and loads of rice. And it was not even Tastic! Mugabe and his posse must have felt like poor cousins, returning home from a brief stay with their rich aunt, carrying a sack full of hand-me-down clothes given up their well-off cousins.
$24M is a lot of money but is barely enough to keep the lights on for a week. China was never going to be the sugar daddy to fork out $27B required for ZimAsset, bearing in mind that the Eastern super power has investments totalling $21B in the entire African continent.
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Hilarious second hand clothes and rice just what ordinary Zimbo’s have been wanting for the last 10 years
The final countdown.
Mugabe thinks China views him as a special friend.
I think he is right. There has to be something “special” about a man who burns his own house down and goes to ask his friend to pay for the rebuild.
Mugabe thinks money flows out of China just as easily as he once believed diesel flowed out of a rock in Chinhoyi.
He actually went to check the garden of his new mansion for his son. He probably went there to secretly meet his Singapore doctor for a top up of chemo
Always nice when uncle Robert comes short
Lessons for da oldman r plenty, but he never learns.
It has been said several times that China is not an investor of means. They want resources to feed into their industries and create employment for their ballooning population. Mugabe is good at wasting money, its just a matter of time before he will make a trip to Russia and beg again. The real investors are those that had invested in Zimbabwe and any other African country before, EU and America. Can any one show me country that was build by Chinese except China. Yet Africa was build by Europe and America to its present state.
Africa was not built by Europe or America, but was impoverished by these super powers. Their day of judgement is coming because they created the dictators on the African continent for their own selfish goals.
Sure the West got payment for their “investment” but Africa ie Zim has and is being destroyed by Africans no one else is to blame. Corruption and greed go hand in hand with the destruction of once viable economies. China will be no different, they will bleed the country dry and leave.
MUCHADURA CHETE KKKKKKK