A picture's worth a thousand words...
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These are photos of Robert Mugabe’s mansion, near Harare. Mugabe’s brutal regime is certainly generating a nice income for him as his people starve and suffer; they now have an average life expectancy of 34 years.
I found an interesting forum post somewhere about this:
Apart from the obvious obscenity of it all, why does someone who entertains such an emphatic hatred of European colonialism dress like (a) white man, affect an upper class British accent, and live in a “white” mansion?
Ostentatious is probably the first word which comes to mind - anyone want to fill me in on the other 999 (or so) words which apply here ?
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Another word for all this: disgusting.
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There was rumor that this mansion actually belongs to a Mugabe relative, since (as one Mugabe aide says), no one but no one outside of Mugabe’s close circle can get a glimpse of Mugabe’s home. Maybe, that makes sense...
Grace Mugabe, btw, has other mansions in and around Harare, on landgrabbed land.
So, if I may add another applicable word, I’d say SHREWD.
I have a friend from Harare. Apparently if you go anywhere near this mansion at the wrong time of day you will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.
*sigh*
Sic Semper Tyrannis