Opposition anger at Mugabe party

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Source: BBC News

Around 200 Zimbabwean exiles living in South Africa have staged a demonstration on the South African border to protest against President Robert Mugabe's 84th birthday celebrations.

The anti-Mugabe demonstrators wore T-shirts with the slogan: "The party's over."
They also launched a helium balloon at the border post with the message for President Mugabe which read: "Bob, you've had your cake, now beat it!"

"A birthday party while everybody around him is starving and dying. There's no electricity, there are no roads, there are no jobs, there's no education, there's no medical, there's no nothing," he added."He is spending 300,000 US dollars to have a birthday party."

Activists in the crowd expressed similar anger about the economic catastrophe now unfolding in Zimbabwe, where inflation has reached 100,000%."People are suffering in Zimbabwe. People are leaving the country. He has to consider why they are leaving the country," said a woman demonstrator.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7260683.stm

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Hopefully Mugabe will not be elected this time, but that is wishful thinking.