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  • Grace Mugabe is immune from prosecution in Hong Kong (repeatedly punched photographer in the face)

    03/22/2009 10:05:38 AM PDT · by Stoat · 22 replies · 1,050+ views
    The Times (U.K.) ^ | March 22,2009 | Jane Macartney
    (edit)Hong Kong-based British photographer Richard Jones encountered the 43-year-old wife of Robert Mugabe as she walked down a street near her luxury hotel in the heart of the city to go shopping.She punched him in the face when he tried to take pictures of her on January 15, leaving Mr Jones with bruises and cuts where her diamond-encrusted ring had smashed into his face. Mr Jones told AFP: "I think it's a disgrace for the Hong Kong government to allow a person to walk on a street in Hong Kong, punch a member of the media, and walk free from...
  • South African taxpayers foot the bill for Jacob Zuma’s lavish lifestyle

    03/18/2010 8:24:52 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 13 replies · 420+ views
    Times Online ^ | March 19, 2010 | Jonathan Clayton
    It has always been a mystery how Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s polygamist President, can afford to keep a roof over all those wives and his 20 children. Now taxpayers have the answer. They have unwittingly been picking up a large chunk of the £6 million bill for a series of home improvements, including a helicopter pad and a clinic at his rural home in KwaZulu-Natal. Since the genial Mr Zuma, 67, was forced to admit last year that he had fathered his 20th child with a woman who was neither one of his three wives nor a fiancée, his ostentatious...