Robert Mugabe has single handedly overseen the complete and utter destruction of his home country. Inflation is currently running at 100,000% (yes, really). So what does he do? Why spend $250,000 on his 84th birthday party.
Look, certainly there was lots of inequity in the country prior to his taking over, and there were legitimate problems with having large white-owned farms which, even though they had been in families for generations, were still essentially created by kicking tribal blacks off their own land, then hiring them back as labor. So yeah, there was social inequality that needed to be addressed. But that doesn't excuse taking a country that was one of the more developed economies in Africa and a net food exporter and turning it into an economic disaster area. According to the linked article, Zimbabwe's economy has shrunk by 2,222% since 1996.
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