Posted on 02/14/2009 8:04:49 PM PST by bruinbirdman
ZIMBABWE’S President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace have secretly bought a £4m bolt-hole in the Far East while his country struggles with hyper-inflation, mass unemployment and a cholera epidemic.
The Mugabes’ house, in an exclusive residential complex in Hong Kong, was purchased on their behalf by a middleman through a shadowy company whose registered office is in a run-down tenement block. When a reporter and a photographer called at the house last week, they were attacked by the Zimbabwean occupants. The assailants were questioned by the police.
The property came to light during a Sunday Times investigation into the Mugabes’ financial interests in Asia, where a web of associates has helped them to spend lavishly on luxuries and stash away millions in bank accounts. In Zimbabwe, meanwhile, inflation has reached 231m%, unemployment stands at 94% and 3,467 people have died in recent months from cholera.
According to sources in Zimbabwe and Asia, Grace Mugabe has splashed out £55,500 on marble statues in Vietnam and £8,700 on a handbag in Singapore. She and her husband have enjoyed some of the region’s finest hotels.
In Hong Kong, where she has discussed a venture to have Zimbabwean diamonds cut and polished in China, her aides paid one hotel bill with a bag of cash containing £10,500.
The Hong Kong house is the first in the Far East to be identified as the Mugabes’. Last Friday two men and a woman objected violently to the arrival of this newspaper’s journalists.
The throat of Colin Galloway, a 46-year-old reporter, was gripped and bruised by a man in his thirties who lifted him off his feet. Galloway was later examined under police supervision at hospital.
Tim O’Rourke, 45, was grabbed by the neck in his second bruising encounter involving the Mugabes
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We could start a list of US ‘elites’ that are in the same boat, but who would be shocked???
In the Socialist Utopia, all comrades are equal. Some comrades are a little more equal.
What the hell is a “bolt hole”? Why can’t the Limeys speak English?
Is that really a hitler style mustache under his nose?
I’m sure Obama will be buying plenty of “boltholes” All over the tropical world with all the loot he just stole from our cupboards.
a hole through which an animal may bolt when pursued into its burrow or den
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
Oh, the wonderfulness of “change”!
Mugabe “buys” bolt hole, America has to buy a butt hole idea called stimulus legislation.
Is that possible? Are there soldiers standing around pointing guns at peoples heads demanding they not work?
Awww shucks, Mugabe should be entitled to whatever he wishes for... After all he rooted out all those evil racist white peoples and razed (er ahh ‘raised’) his country on a par with Cuba.
It’s where a rat goes to ground - IOW, where scum goes to hide when things get too hot to hang around.
I am pretty sure that's the case for the whites.
There are no jobs.
Businesses are gone.
Not closing.
Gone.
There is nothing.
No schools.
No buses running.
No jobs to go to.
If you manage to get some food from a field, you and your family have to eat it quick otherwise a soldier or policeman will come and take it for themselves.
You can’t leave the country without permission.
You can’t bring in any food or medicine without permission.
It is a dead country.
wherever this shoat goes I hope their are black ops folks waiting for him . He deserves to go slowly
Unless one has live in such a place, it is hard to explain.
Also, do you think Mugabe is taking advantage of the collapse in RE prices or is he getting ready to skip-country?
That is the official inflation rate, after the birth/death numbers.
I suspect the people are disarmed?
Friends of ours escaped from there. They had a prosperous farm and are white. It was totally wrecked. Their friends were murdered, intimidated and terrorized. A true racist/socialist (but I repeat myself) nightmare.
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