Despots & Tin Pot Dictators: If The UK’s House of Lords is only now waking up to the endemic corruption and violence in Zimbabwe, after decades of Mugabe, does that mean it will be four decades before they wake up to the endemic corruption and violence in the ANC regime in SA, the very people who they now think will even consider pressurizing Zimbabwe’s regime to end corruption and violence?
Or do they care more about the bars of gold after a prominent figure in Zimbabwe’s ruling party was arrested trying to smuggle 14 bars of gold on a flight to Dubai.
Airport scanners at Harare on Monday picked up 6kg of gold valued at £280,000 (about 6 Million Rand) in the handbag of Henrietta Rushwaya, who is head of the Zimbabwe Miners Federation and a niece of President Mnangagwa. Ms Rushwaya, 53, appeared in court this week charged with smuggling,
Steven Tserayi, one of the president’s long-term aides, was detained with her,
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