Posted on 01/22/2015 3:05:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
In 2000, Timon Shava was a hero of Zimbabwe’s land reform program when he joined hundreds of other landless peasants in a wave of land seizures and evictions of white farmers.
Today, he is homeless after police, acting on behalf of President Robert Mugabe’s wife Grace, destroyed dozens of thatch dwellings on a farm that she wants to control. The First Lady, who has another farm in the area, said last year that she wanted to turn this farm into a wildlife conservancy that could raise money for an orphanage.
A new twist on the long struggle over land in Zimbabwe is now pitting powerful figures in Zimbabwe’s ruling ZANU-PF party, which formerly was a liberation movement against oppressive white rule, against poor tenants in the southern African nation. …
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It’d be a cold day in hell before the AP points out that Mugabe & Co. are communists, besides that. As are his partners in South Africa, the ANC.
Well..”what goes around, comes around”. What a cesspool that “country” has become.
If a woman is from Zimbawe and/or associated with Mugabe, much less married to him, she is NO lady. If she were, that would be a first.
I guess that makes her a “philanthropist” like George Soros.
Karma’s a beech ...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Mugabe
Personal details
Born 23 July 1965 (age 49)
Benoni, South Africa
Political party Zimbabwe African National
Union-Patriotic Front
Spouse(s) Stanley Goreraza (Divorced)
Robert Mugabe (1996–present)
Children Russell (with Stanley)
Bona (with Robert)
Robert (with Robert)
Chatunga (with Robert)
Religion Roman Catholicism
Grace Mugabe (née Marufu, 23 July 1965)[1] is the wife of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe and the First Lady of Zimbabwe from her marriage to the leader in 1996.[2]
Grace was previously married to Stanley Goreraza, an air force pilot, and now working in the Zimbabwe embassy in China.[3][4] As secretary to the president, she became his mistress while still married to Goreraza and together they had two children, Bona, named after Mugabe’s mother, and Robert Peter, Jr.[5] The couple were married in an extravagant Catholic Mass, titled the “Wedding of the Century” by the Zimbabwe press, after the death of Mugabe’s first wife, Sally Hayfron.[5][6]
In 1997, Grace Mugabe gave birth to the couple’s third child, Chatunga.[7] Grace is popularly known in Zimbabwe as “Dis Grace”, a reference to her extravagant lifestyle while maintaining political responsibilities as first lady.[8]
In 2014, Grace Mugabe was given a doctorate in sociology by the University of Zimbabwe, only two months after registering at the university and although a dissertation does not exist. The degree was widely described as fraudulent.[9][10][11][12][13][14] Grace Mugabe is under personal sanctions in the European Union and the United States for her role in the Mugabe regime.
Grace Mugabe was designated as head of the ZANU-PF Women’s League in 2014.
Interesting - a profitable wildlife conservancy...
Maybe they should see if she has anything to do with the cyanide poisoning of 300 elephants in her country...
Her hubby’s economic policies are certainly fueling it to some degree and the Ivory tends to end up in S Africa to be resold to Asia.
I read “The Fear” about a white journalist returning to Zimbabwe to document what happened in the country after Mugabe lost an election and refused to concede. Mugabe’s thugs didn’t hesitate to step all over political opponents of any color. I’ll never look at a crochet hook the same way after reading that book.
Right, the AP writer describes the ZANU-PF as having been “a liberation party against oppressive white rule”. No mention of the C word.
Wait a minute - Russell and Robert? Jeez, I thought it would be LaQuanzee or Trayvon...or some other ‘African’ name.
Its a good thing they got rid of the white folks. All has been milk and honey since..........
Zimbabwe may be ruled by the scum of the earth but at least they’re black scum.
That counts for something, right?
More money in western guilt than food.
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