the Zimbabwean government's
pursuit of the dentist has cooled off amid fears
it could hamper a hunting industry that is
lucrative and important for the country.
Plus, it would be hypocritical for that government to want to hold the dentist accountable for the same $hit their president loves to do....
pursuit of the dentist has cooled off amid fears
it could hamper a hunting industry that is
lucrative and important for the country.
"" When considering what to get Robert
Mugabe for his birthday , one first must
understand that Zimbabwe’ s president is a
man who demands the finest.
His birthday parties don ’t cost hundreds of
thousands; they cost millions . His parties
aren’ t attended by thousands, but by tens of
thousands. And they don’t eat elephant ;
they eat baby elephant .
This was the predicament in which one
local landowner named Tendai Musasa
found himself when figuring out what he
would get Mugabe for his 91st birthday
party, which cost $ 1 million and was held
this past weekend. “ We regard him as our
father, ” Musasa said to the Los Angeles
Times of a leader who has been in power
for 35 years and is widely criticized for his
human rights record, disastrous economic
policies and impoverished citizenry . “ Our
provider, our hero . We regard him as a
very courageous man .”
For such a courageous man , who years ago
instituted violent and contentious land -
redistribution policies, Musasa would bring
out the big guns . He would kill a baby
elephant.
But it ’s not such a big deal, he said. The
elephant was no good anyhow .
“It had grown up [with ] a tendency of
charging and hostility to farmers ,” he
explained of his decision on which elephant
to slaughter . “They ’ re going to the ripe
corn. They become aggressive, stubborn and
unflinching in their attacks . Elephants have
got characters, like human beings . … We
send a message to the rest of them not to be
rogue animals . We put down the most
formidable charger or aggressor to say to
the rest, ‘Don ’t do this thing.’ ”
The elephant wasn’t enough , though.
Musasa also submitted for mass
consumption two buffaloes, two sables and
five impalas . Then there was the lion , shot
and mounted . And the crocodile, shot and
mounted. Those, Musasa said , weren ’ t for
eating. “ I personally identified an old lion ,
a huge one, ” he told the L .A . Times . “ If you
have studied the dynamics of the lion
kingdom, these lions are soon ousted by the
pride. They start to pray on farmers ’
livestock. They start to be a danger to
human lives . ”"
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