Report: Mugabe's 10,000 Acre Farm

As millions of his nation's citizens starve and thousands die weekly from HIV/AIDS, Zimbabwe's notoriously corrupt and rabidly anti-gay president Robert Mugabe can relax weekends at his ever-expanding 10,000 acre farm. The land was seized from private farmers under a program Mugabe started in 2000, reports the Daily Telegraph.

The Daily Telegraph located Mr Mugabe's private empire in the Darwendale area, near Mr Mugabe's tribal home, about 30 miles west of the capital Harare. It is made up of six farms, including five properties seized from white owners over the years.

The 1,100-acre Highfield farm near Mr Mugabe's tribal home was bought commercially but five others were seized from their white owners. Workers said they were now employed either by Mr Mugabe or "Gushungo", his family name, which is also the new name for the estate. "We were told the farms belong to the president," said the worker, who cannot be named for his own safety, or the farm on which he lives identified.

TThe total estate now stretches over 10,000 acres on the edge of Lake Robertson including homesteads, managers' cottages, workers' houses, huge barns, sheds, workshop.. The estate is valued at about £2 million and Mr Mugabe visits every three months or so.

Mugabe—who infamously described gays as "worse than dogs and pigs"—recently enacted tougher anti-sodomy legislation and a statute that makes simple touching between men a criminal offense. The southern African nation is now being governed by a power-sharing deal struck last year between Mugabe and rival Morgan Tsvangirai.

The UK-based Telegraph is obsessed with the white farmers who land was appropriated. That's only the tip of the iceberg. The takeaway should be that Mugabe is personally enriching himself at the expense of the impoverished and starving people. Oh and a $2 million USD farm in a country with 250% inflation? That ain't bad at all.

Mugabe Has Build Up 10,000 Ac Farm [DT]

Some Background ...
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Gay Activists in Zimbabwe Report "Shift" [R20]
Counterfeit AIDS Medications Flood Zimbabwe [R20]
Zimbabwe Cites U.S, Enacts Sweeping Surveillance [R20]
Zimbabwe Hunting Gay Activist [R20]
Gay Bashing in Zimbabwe Parliament [R20]
Zimbabwe: Good News and Bad [R20]
Zimbabwe "Doesn't Want All These People" [R20]
Zimbabweans Come Out Slowly [R20]
Zimbabwe Anchor Comes Out [R20]
Zimbabwe Gay Asylum Plea [R20]

[via Americablog]

Comments

[Ravenback]

Mugabe is pure scum, and he should have been taken out a long time ago. Zimbabwe is dying under his leadership.

[FREELEO]

I don't believe in a place known as hell, but if I did, I think Robert Mugabe belongs to be in it.

[Tilis]

Shut up you dumb fcks mugabe is doing exactly what White people do all day every day around the world. Trifiga An oil company paid $30m to ivory coast residents for dumping poison and kill a few hundred so put your scorn there.
So raping the country, starving the people and letting AIDS destroy the nation is "okay"? STFU -RM

[Jim]

It would be interesting to ask the workers on this plantation whether it was better working for the white farmers or for the black president.

On the one hand, the white farmers were probably racist and proud. On the other hand, they probably weren’t sociopathic tyrants.

As for myself, I’m guessing I’d rather throw in my lot with the white farmers, but I know I wouldn’t have fought a revolution so I could work for either one of them.

[louis]

[BANNED. ANNOYING and SELF HATING GAY. -RM]

[Dantrell]

Is this the same Miss Louise ... oops Louis ... who claims he is gay but defends Tim Hardaway and church homophobia? Where do these Barnets come from?

Hey Louis, you want some of the Mugable cock? You think the old man will give you some? Or order your execution? Stupid closet queen.