According to the Christian Science Monitor:
The cost of Bona Mugabe’s wedding on March 1, attended by the heads of state of South Africa, Zambia, and Equatorial Guinea at Mugabe’s private home in Harare’s plush Borrowdale suburb, cost $5 million.
Just after the wedding, plans leaked out that Mugabe’s Zanu (PF) government clandestinely signed North Korea, one of its old friends, to build two statues of Mugabe at an estimated cost of $5 million.
The statues were commissioned by the minister of local government, Ignatius Chombo.One is a nearly 30-foot high bronze image worth $3.5 million to be placed in Harare; the other is a $1.5 million version to be placed in a $3.8 million museum to be built in Mugabe’s rural Zvimba home, in Mashonaland West. Building statues of leaders is something North Korea has considerable experience doing.
Read more about the story at Bloomberg and Bulawayo 24.
I have documented many of North Korea’s Africa projects on this web page. See here.
Read the full story here:
Mugabe splashes $5m on N. Korea statues
Christian Science Monitor
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2014-3-12
