Robert Mugabe has Gold Coins Minted to Celebrate his 89th Birthday in Poverty-Stricken Zimbabwe

The Daily Mail ^ | 2 March 2013 | Daily Mail Reporter

[DogByte6RER]

A 22-carat dictator: Robert Mugabe has gold coins minted to celebrate his 89th birthday in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe

• Four-tier cake made in his honour at Zimbabwe's state house party

• Opposition accuses his party supporters of killing 12-year-old boy

Zimbabwe is one of the poorest country's on Earth, but clearly despot Robert Mugabe doesn't seem to care on his 89th birthday.

The president celebrated it by immortalising himself in freshly minted gold coins and held a lavish party with a giant cake.

Guests, including his wife, first lady Grace, tucked into the four-tier treat made in his honour at the state house before he gave a thank-you speech.

The celebration came amid accusations that Mugabe is losing his grip on a country he has ruled since coming to power in 1980 and resorting to violence.

His party are suspected of being involved in the death of the 12-year-old son of a local official who is supporter of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).

Christpowers Maisiri was burned to death while sleeping in a hut with his brothers last weekend in Headlands district, 110 miles east of Harare.

[DogByte6RER]

Yeah, sure ... so will it cost a gazillion of these worthless Monopoly money notes to buy just one of those gold coins that looks like an old prop from a Planet of the Apes movie?

[DogByte6RER]

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I looked up the word “inflation” and Mugabe’s picture was right next to it.

[Perdogg]

I hope this doesn’t give Obama any ideas.

[Kozak]

[Tupelo]

I don't see a problem here.
It is always this way in banana republics.
I am real sure Broncho Bammer is taking notes.

[LADY J]

Is he related to Obozo & Mooch?

[God luvs America]

too late- obama takes a golf vacation while his wife/daughters take a skiing vacation at taxpayer expense in poverty stricken America...

[TurboZamboni]

[Revolting cat!]

Howz that post-colonialism working out?!

[3Fingas]

Obamugabe thinks that Zimbabwe has an economic model we should emulate. Thankfully, there is a two-term limit. Hopefully, we can survive his tenure in office. We may need a reverse Marshall Plan after he leaves office.

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[The Antiyuppie]

There may not be enough trees on Earth to make the paper it would take to print enough of those bills to purchase one of those gold coins.

Somewhere in my basement, I have a 200 billionen=(our trillion) Deutschmark stamp (uncancelled). If it was cashable, I could buy the entire country of Germany with it and evict everyone!

[rawcatslyentist]

That was axually hiz plan to cut the deficit in half. Print it.

Till China told him otherwise!

[3Fingas]

This currency would be better if someone would photoshop the picture of Obama with the zoot-suit hat pretending to smoke a joint. LOL

[null and void]

Piker.

I got me one of these:

[dead]

Those are sweet! I actually have five of the real Zim 100 Trillion dollar bills in mint condition.

I bought them on EBay a few years ago for $5 US bucks.

That $5 was technically worth far more than the Zim bills, but I didn't care, I have literally hundreds of trillions of dollars now!

[dynachrome]

Courtesy Zim ping

[BfloGuy]

Zimbabwe is one of the poorest country's on Earth

"country's"?

And the Brits think they're so much better at English than we are.

[DocRock]

89 huh? Seems just like yesterday he got gored by a goat in the gonades... but if memory serves, that was back in 2005 or 2006. There were some humorous posts on FR about it, but my search skills aren’t turning up anything.