Nicholas Reilly for Metro.co.ukTuesday 17 Feb 2015 1:57 pm
If you’re one of the world’s most despised despots, it seems appropriately evil to serve up a protected species of animal as a dish at your birthday party.
Partygoers at the 91st birthday party of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe are set to dine on elephant, after a farmer donated the unusual delicacy to the lavish bash.
Tendai Musasa confirmed to the Zimbabwe Chronicle that he has donated game meat and a lion trophy worth £78,000 to the event.
Musasa provided a total of two buffaloes, two elephants, a lion, five impalas and two sables.
Describing preparations for the event, he added that the animals would be slaughtered a few days before the birthday bash, and stored by a local hotel.
He also dismissed complaints from local farmers that the donation would affect their income, labelling them ‘enemies’ of the president.
Speaking to the Guardian, a spokesman for the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force said: ‘I am not in favour of anyone donating wild animals for a celebration or for any other reason.
‘They have been doing this for years now. Every time there is a celebration or on Independence Day, several elephants and buffalo are killed for the celebrations.
‘This is totally unethical and should not be allowed.’
Mugabe is renowned for hosting typically lavish birthday parties, despite his country’s extreme poverty.
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So sad. If you have the power you can do anything you like in africa.
Sable????? Its such a beautiful animal and they want to kill and eat it.
Hopefully he doesnt turn 100. Imagine what they will do then???
Sable????? Its such a beautiful animal and they want to kill and eat it.
Hopefully he doesnt turn 100. Imagine what they will do then???
Next trip to the bush??
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Why has Mugabe not been got rid of yet, I wonder He is an evil example not only for the inhabitants of Zimbabwe, but for all African countries
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There was a pic similar to this in Skukuza Library, of all places...don't know if it's still there?
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What a nice photo! and how shameful It almost makes me say that they deserve each other, but that is not quite true .......yet
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Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Friday 6 September 2019 - 7:06am
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, Zimbabwean first Premier (in 1980) and President (in 1987), was born in Kutama in 1924 (formerly Southern Rhodesia).
AFP
JOHANNESBURG - Former Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician and president, Robert Mugabe has died aged 95 on Friday.
Mugabe was ousted from power in Zimbabwe in November 2017.
https://www.enca.com/news/robert-mugabe-dies-aged-95
Friday 6 September 2019 - 7:06am
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Robert Mugabe. Mugabe, Zimbabwean first Premier (in 1980) and President (in 1987), was born in Kutama in 1924 (formerly Southern Rhodesia).
AFP
JOHANNESBURG - Former Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician and president, Robert Mugabe has died aged 95 on Friday.
Mugabe was ousted from power in Zimbabwe in November 2017.
https://www.enca.com/news/robert-mugabe-dies-aged-95
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I'll try not to make a comment on that
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He is a Hero amongst 95% of the population of the whole of Southern Africa