Thread: Mugabe is a Scumbag

^ I have seen the mansionesque home of Grace Mugabe near Borrowdale Brook (sp?) in Harae. Huge it is. Very impressive and stately looking.

Actually even more impressive is that she apparently managed to pay for it whilst she was earning a secretaries salary [the sarchasm icon here's probably a bit superfluous I guess]

No sense of style, whatsoever (shock and awe maybe?).

That house is hideous.

I see that he got an LLB and LLM from London University

Mugabe closest thing ever known to a talking chimp. Hated by EVERYBODY in the United Kingdom who is in a right state of mind.

Especially hated by the High Sheriff of Wales, largest county in England who in 2003 had planned to invade Zimbabwe but was overshadowed by the wrongful incursion into Iraq.
"I hate Mugabe, the shitty shit"

I dont think that this is mugabes house becuase in my experience black people normally keep those clear plastic covers on their sofas

Grace Mugabe, aka the First Shopper is notorious for her profligacy.
Her loving husband comandeers planes from the national airline for her shopping trips.

They had their first two kids when Mugabe was married to his first wife. The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zim said there was 'no reason' not to recognise their marriage.

Originally Posted by Travelmate

Wales, largest county in England

This could upset a few members!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With friends like China and Russia, who needs enemies.

But let's face it, what incentive is there for the ordinary Joe to work any longer. A bottle of beer is 150 billion Zim Dollars. Fuck, I recall when that was GDP and some.

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all thats missing in that photo is 2 little red laser dots

He must realise that he won't go on forever. I feel sickened because I was one that loved him at the begining.

It will not be very long before SA follow into the pits, "Land reform" and farm murders were the first stage in Zimbabwes problems.

^actually, "brown-outs" were.

He is scum but lets be honest if he hadn't kicked out white farmers with British heritage most of us wouldn't even know his name. As far as African Big Men go he iis a pussy cat.

He's exercising his sovereign right as leader of the country. Really, is anyone seriously in favor of external (especially) western intervention?

I sense that the Teak Door collective consciousness would be deeply against any intervention because he's just a normal African dictator doing what many African dictators do. If he choses to rule with an iron fist -- maybe that's what holds them together. I don't sense that the media fervor and endless images of a white fella pushing a shopping cart down endless shop aisles with nary a scrap of crust while their leader lives in palatial spreads complete with fountains and pasty balding heads on sticks leading up his drive -- that's not nearly enough to even get irritated about. Is it?

Is it really anybody's business that a McDonald's Happy Meal costs two and a half million Zimbabwe goobers?

Yes, best to just let Ban Ki-moon stand off at a distance and call him names and make faces at him -- maybe a really harshly worded resolution.

I'm getting the hang of this ...

Zimbabwe introduces new currency


In January, the bank introduced a Z$10m note

Zimbabwe's central bank has said it will introduce a new currency on 1 August as part of efforts to fight the effects of hyperinflation.

The governor, Gideon Gono, has announced zeros will be lopped off the Zimbabwe dollar, making 10bn dollars one dollar.

Only last week, the government introduced the Z$100bn note.

Inflation is officially running at more than 2,000,000%, but economists believe the real rate is far higher.

"The Zimbabwe dollar will be redenominated by a factor of one to 10, which means we are removing 10 zeros from our monetary value. Ten billion dollars today will be reduced to Z$1... effective from 1 August," Mr Gono said in a television broadcast.

He said the high rate constrained the operations of the country's computer systems.

Computers, calculators and banks' cash machines have not been able to handle basic transactions in billions and trillions of dollars. The new Z$100bn note introduced last week was not enough to buy a loaf of bread. So far this year, Zimbabwe has been forced to print Z$100m, Z$250m and Z$500m notes in rapid succession, now mostly worthless.

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in order to achieve that you need, in some way, to cancel the notes in circulation. And I thought they had no new paper source.

Originally Posted by Mid

He said the high rate constrained the operations of the country's computer systems.

and with no paper, this is getting funnier

they should go back to barter, much more efficient at this stage

Originally Posted by William

in order to achieve that you need, in some way, to cancel the notes in circulation. And I thought they had no new paper source.

Pffft, paper-schmaper! Couple of bottles of Twink/White Out/Tipex and those pesky zero's are gone, Bob's yer despotic uncle and ruler of a Southern African nation!

"The Zimbabwe dollar will be redenominated by a factor of one to 10, which means we are removing 10 zeros from our monetary value. Ten billion dollars today will be reduced to Z$1... effective from 1 August,"

Woohoo I'm rich!! I've got about Z$200,000 sitting in my wallet right now...

Inflation is officially running at more than 2,000,000%, but economists believe the real rate is far higher.

... Oh. Fuck.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by Mid

He said the high rate constrained the operations of the country's computer systems.

and with no paper, this is getting funnier

they should go back to barter, much more efficient at this stage

ten will get you one that the barter system is what the great unwashed are using ...........

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Originally Posted by William

in order to achieve that you need, in some way, to cancel the notes in circulation. And I thought they had no new paper source.

Pffft, paper-schmaper! Couple of bottles of Twink/White Out/Tipex and those pesky zero's are gone, Bob's yer despotic uncle and ruler of a Southern African nation!

"The Zimbabwe dollar will be redenominated by a factor of one to 10, which means we are removing 10 zeros from our monetary value. Ten billion dollars today will be reduced to Z$1... effective from 1 August,"

Woohoo I'm rich!! I've got about Z$200,000 sitting in my wallet right now...

Inflation is officially running at more than 2,000,000%, but economists believe the real rate is far higher.

... Oh. Fuck.

According to my old man, who used to be with the World Bank, inflation is probably 15 million %; but he did qualify that statement by saying today inflation is at, which was about two weeks ago

Was chatting on MSN the other day with a pal back in the UK. He's black, the conversation predictably went towards the cost of living here and there, and the rise in prices. I joked about bringing in Mugabe to help out at the Bank of England to fix the inflation problem. His words were "we got enough stupid niggers here without bringing in the worlds biggest"