The Destroyer Part IV

Mugabes Mansion

Zimbabwe's economy wasn't the only thing that was falling apart but Zimbabwe's Government was still intimidating the opposition. Posters of Mugabe were posted all around with the slogan "The final battle for total control". Opposition newspapers were still being published despite the acts of terror that were used to intimidate them were still going on. These were sold at traffic corners with pictures of victims of the official violence that the government caused. In response there was a pro - government paper published which reported that Mugabe was the beloved leader of all Zimbabweans. Grace Mugabe was Robert Mugabe's second wife, his first wife died a of a kidney ailment. When they got married he was 72 and she, his Secretary at the time, was only 31. In a article in the local newspaper she stated "Nowhere in the world has a government distributed farm equipment to its citizens. He is doing this because he has the people at heart". Later she talked about the war veterans "Those who died during the war did not die in vain. They died so that we can have total empowerment. Mugabe and his wife live in a 25 bedroom mansion in Borrowdale Brooke, a Harare suburb. People question on how he paid for the estimated 10 million US dollar mansion. Some say the Chinese built it because Mugabe granted them mining and trade rights.