While Zimbabwe Is Dying

by Tom Palmer on January 18, 2009

Mrs Mugabe assaults our photographer outside her luxury Hong Kong hotel

Kleptocracy in Action.

Grace Mugabe, 43, known as the First Shopper of Zimbabwe, flew into a rage when she was spotted last week leaving the exclusive Shangri-La hotel in Hong Kong. She has been staying there with her entourage at a cost of £2,000 a day while her country endures poverty, hunger and disease.

Holding a Jimmy Choo-style bag estimated to be worth at least £2,000, and hiding behind Cavalli rhine-stone-framed glasses with a red cashmere shawl over her head, she ordered her bodyguard to attack the photographer, Richard Jones.

It’s worth a read.

Hat Tip: Pedro Sette Camara

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