thanks to Bert for sending this in
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Robert Mugabe's mansion in Harare
We featured Zimbabwe dictator Robert Mugabe's personal bus in an earlier post, so here are some pictures of his personal fixed accommodation:
And how do most of his subjects live? The example below is relatively luxurious in Zimbabwe:
thanks to Bert for sending this in
thanks to Bert for sending this in
You've been had. This is disinformation
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however, the page "anonymous" refers to has this to say:
ReplyDelete"A 2003 report in The Guardian UK notes:
Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, is building a lavish palace costing £3.75m on the outskirts of the capital, Harare.
Furnishings and security are expected to send the cost to more than £6m at a time when nearly half of Zimbabwe's population is dependent on international food aid.
Its sprawling accommodation includes 25 bedrooms with bathrooms and spas. It is three times the size of the president's official residence, State House, and his adjacent offices.
The mansion, located in the upmarket Borrowdale Brooke area, about 15 miles north of the city centre, is nearing completion. The construction company Energoproject, based in Belgrade, is building the palace.
Mr Mugabe has built smaller mansions in Harare and Zvimba, his birthplace, as well a Chivu, the birthplace of his wife, Grace.
And newzimbabwe.com notes:
THE Harare City Council has embarked on a multi-billion-dollar project to widen two roads which form a link to President Robert Mugabe's mansion in Helensvale, a report in the Zimbabwe Independent said.
Major civil works have already started to widen Carrick Creagh and Borrowdale Brook roads which link the mansion to Crow-hill Road. "
Thus although Mugabe's mansion isn't the one shown in the photos, his actual mansions probably look like it.
Well, dictator or not, you can't deny he has good taste in interior decorations.
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