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Africa Subsaharan
Zimbabweans choose work over mourning Mugabe
2019-09-09
[DAWN] A day after ex-strongman and founding leader Bob Muggsy Mugabe
Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win....
died, the only clear sign that Zim-bob-we was in mourning were flags flying at half mast.

The streets and shops were packed, weddings and parties went ahead as planned. Most people were going about their usual business, trying to eke out living. For while Mugabe is hailed for having led Zim-bob-we to independence, for many Zim-bob-weans he is also the man who wrecked their economy, leaving them to live with the consequences.

Commuter mini bus driver More Kondo, 30, was busy decanting petrol from a large jerrycan into a smaller container to share with a fellow driver.

"If it were another leader, right now this country should have shut down to mourn," he said. "But he was an autocrat.

"Had he left power early and the country in a better shape, we would be celebrating his life and would have seriously shut down the country in honour of him."

Posted by:Fred

#7  "Robert Mugabe - Peoples' Activist and Climate Change Warrior: what you could and what you should learn from one of Africa's greatest leaders."

/NYT Tomorrow's front page
Posted by: swksvolFF   2019-09-09 19:51  

#6  Allow folks to piss on his grave for $1 and you'd make a fortune.

Put up a pub next to the cemetery that allowed you to cut in line at the grave and you could retire in a year as tourists with Rhodesian accents bought pint after pint and drowned the dead bastard.

In fact that is how most dictators should end. Embalm them and bury them with their head out of the ground and their mouth open.
Posted by: ruprecht   2019-09-09 09:39  

#5  ...And BTW, what's Gracie up to these days?

Hiding out in Singapore, according to Wiki. Guessing the Singapore government's attitude is that as long as she keeps her head down, her mouth shut, and the checks clear, it's cool.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-09-09 06:20  

#4  Anyone remember the flood of pics and memes from when he fell down on the carpet at Harare ? It was hilarious.
Posted by: Dron66046   2019-09-09 05:42  

#3  I took a big steaming Mugabeâ„¢ in his honor this AM. I think it was the chorizo....
Posted by: Frank G   2019-09-09 05:38  

#2  ...Muggsy is one with the ages.


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2019-09-09 03:54  

#1  "Miss me yet?" -Ian Smith
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-09 02:39  

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