WTF: Gallery of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe’s Palace
Submitted by DA on Monday, 12 November 2007272 Comments
While the poor people of Zimbabwe fight for a days meal, this is how the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe lives.
- Arab artists spent a year decorating the ceilings
- 3 acres of accommodation
- Estimated 26 million USD to build
- 25 en-suite bathrooms
- Neighbours in Borrowdale, Harare, have been told to sell up and leave to protect Mugabe’s security
- China has donated the glazed blue tiles that cover the roof.
- Malaysia has donated the timber
- there are underground rooms reinforced with concrete
- It is 3 times the size of the State House.
- has 44 acres of landscaped grounds
- A Serbian construction company built it – Energoproject – to a Chinese design. Mugabe said in interview that the Serbian company donated their material and labour
- 50 crack riot response police guard it on a 24 hour watch
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I agree that the black people are suffering but, at least on the farms they had a place to stay and food in their stomachs. The suffering of the black people is just not OK especially when the leader of the country lives a life of luxury and does nothing to empower his people whether buy teaching them how to farm profitably, grow their own food or provide work for the unemployed that they may earn a living.. THAT is not OK.
Does it matter that it’s not his house. He does own more than one house!!! Maybe you were at another house! But the reality is – he does live a life of luxury while his people are suffering and THAT is not OK!!
Why? He’s the leader of his country and the people living in it are suffering – no work = no money = no food. AND, he lives a life of luxury! He certainly doesn’t look starving!
Nigeria praising Mugabe not a Zimbabwean, maybe you must adopt him..nawao!
I visited Zimbabwe in 89 when Mugabe was a hero – how sad that he’s become a tyrant. The country WAS run better with a black man – it’s just that he’s had too much power for too long and not handed it over to true democracy…
Also sad that Zimbabwe has dropped out of the western news now – but the people still suffer.
I pray for Mugabe to go
he never held a fucken gun in combat, he was a coward only when he got the power did he start eliminating those who fought for the country so he could take the credits for himself…….Nx! mgodoyi womuntu
Dont feel bad for African People, they dig their own graves.
Stuart I don’t agree with you, the point is there are a lot of greedy leaders in Africa who happens to take the masses for ride. Don’t blame all African. Please note Ghana is a typical example of good African leadership of which I am a citizen.
Don’t forget the British had a hand in this but for now they would not accept.
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This is a hoax..Check out snopes.com
http://www.snopes.com/photos/architecture/mugabe.asp
This is a typical “freedom fighter” speaking. Freedom from what? I was born and grew up in Zimbabwe on a farm my father BOUGHT!!!! in 1918! In those days EVERYBODY had a job and NOBODY died of hunger or had to leave the country illegally to make a living. Farmers built houses on their farms for their workers who each had a piece of land themselves (given by the farmer on the land HE had bought!) What you also fail to say, or see is that the “hated” colonialists were the ones who built houses and schools and hospitals in this country. They started the industries which, if they had been maintained, could have ensured that all people in the country were happy. A last thought: could you tell us, dear Mr Freedom fighter, what happened to those thousands of flourishing farms when the hard working, successful legitimate owners were either chased off them or killed? I’ll tell you! They are in rot and ruin! THAT is the real reason you are starving in Zimbabwe and its high time people start realizing it!
Yeh, if the Brits never meddled in the region then it would be a first world economic powerhouse. The Hong Kong’s and Singapore’s of this world would pale in comparison. Those pesky colonials!!!
People like Mugabe must repent from abusing others, hating others irrespective of colour or ethnic groups. What is that he still wants to achieve or prove at his age? Wasakara, Bvuma! The only thing that can change him is coming face to face with God the Creator who is able to remake a person inside out. i pray that he gets born again. He started very well but ended badly, this is a sign of a bad leader. He keeps on blaming the west for his misfiring skills in leadership. Change Madala you still have people who deem you in high esteem. Pray for forgiveness.
From your once follower!
People like Mugabe must repent from abusing others, hating others irrespective of colour or ethnic groups. What is that he still wants to achieve or prove at his age? Wasakara, Bvuma! The only thing that can change him is coming face to face with God the Creator who is able to remake a person inside out. i pray that he gets born again. He started very well but ended badly, this is a sign of a bad leader. He keeps on blaming the west for his misfiring skills in leadership. Change Madala you still have people who deem you in high esteem. Pray for forgiveness.
From your once follower!
unosha nyaya nhai
pamberi na Mugabe
I am really replying to Incredulous. Hong Kong and Singapore were both British colonies… as was Zibabwe. Your point is again…?
This is a big hoax gosh how can anyone be so stupid to believe this
The only unfortunate thing is an ugly tyrant lives in there…
I think we need to get the right photographs of Mugabe’s House. This is not Mugabe’s House. This is the wonderful mansion of General Ibrahim Babangida of Nigeria. Let’s get the images correct. thank U.
All these claims are false. The mansion in the photographs is actually a home located in the wealthy community of Bell Air, Los Angeles. The mansion is available as a location for film, television and commercial shoots and is featured as such on the website of location manager, Toni Maier. Thus, there is no truth in the story that the mansion in the photographs belongs to Mugabe. And, in any case, an ariel shot of Mugabe’s partially completed mansion in Harare shows a building quite different to the one depicted in these photographs.
Not his house, go on google earth and check it out (17*47’29.45″S 31*04’31.82″E I think) there is no luxuary pool, in fact not many trees or flowers either, on the whole a rather large crappy garden! with good fields of fire for defence