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| Mugabe splashes $300,000 on Big Brother runner up |
| 2010-10-22 |
| [Daily Nation (Kenya)] Zimbabwe's representative in the Big Brother All Stars reality television show, Munyaradzi Chidzonga on Wednesday met President Robert Mugabe and was feted with $300 000 compensatory 'prize money.' This means that Munya got more than the winner of the competition, Uti from Nigeria who pocketed $200 000 for winning the contest sponsored by Multi Choice. Zimbabweans felt Munya was robbed after surviving eviction nine times when he was nominated and political heavyweights from President Mugabe's Zanu PF party jumped at the opportunity to exploit to their favour. The move was initiated by business mogul Phillip Chiyangwa, a nephew of the president and David Chapfika who initiated a fundraising campaign. After meeting the president, Munya said: "That was something I wanted to do since I was very young. They say when you are young you are given the power of dreams. "You live that dream until a certain time it is realised. I have always told young people around that we are a product of a group of men's dreams and we have been given a platform. "And I can proudly stand on that platform and say a black man is more powerful in Zimbabwe than anywhere else in the world. "I have been given the blessing of travelling and seeing, not all of it, but much of the world and this is the best place. It is thanks to men like you Your Excellency." During the course of Big Brother, Munya said he wanted to meet President Mugabe and usually went around the house with the Zimbabwean flag draped over his shoulders. President Mugabe said Munya was a people's hero and the true winner of the Big Brother All Stars reality television show. He hailed Munya's performance in the "grueling" and "rough contest". "This is quite a joyous moment not just for Munya, not just for me, but to all of us in the country... you have done well for the country," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 i see the $15 million in aid money Australia gave Zimbabwe in 2009 was put to great good use. that was taxes taken from me by force and given to mugabe |
| Posted by: anon1 2010-10-22 20:05 |
| #2 LOL |
| Posted by: ryuge 2010-10-22 17:31 |
| #1 |
| Posted by: Lumpy Anguting2786 2010-10-22 13:07 |