Lavish celebration for Mugabe as workers strike

ROBERT Mugabe distinguished his 86th birthday yesterday with a intemperate celebration as the economy struggles to redeem from crisis. The Zimbabwean president, display no pointer of formulation to retire after thirty years in power, was feted with a array of events, together with an all-night concert, thought to have cost �328,000.The check for the festivities was paid by Mugabes Zanu-PF paADVERTISEMENTrty. The maestro woman monarch – at large reviled abroad – essentially noted his birthday on twenty-one February. He is pronounced to be scarcely fit for his age.A power-sharing supervision set up by Mugabe and his sour opposition Morgan Tsvangirai, right away budding minister, has stabilised the economy after the predicament that most Zimbabweans censure on Mugabes policies. But assist agencies contend some-more than dual million Zimbabweans will still need food assist this year.Government workers, who consequence an normal $160 per month, went on set upon this month to press for higher wages, whilst the infancy of the race lives next $1 a day."Holding these outrageous celebrations, even as polite servants set upon for improved wages, shows that the thorough supervision has finished zero to shift the audacity of Zanu-PF, that insists on progressing a celebrity cult around the leader, Mugabe, by nationalising what should be a in isolation affair," pronounced John Makumbe, a maestro domestic writer and Mugabe critic. "It additionally shows the partys priorities are not in line with the peoples aspirations."The big celebration was staged in Bulawayo, a city tranquil by Tsvangirais Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).