From: hjkhjkhd@hhhh.com   
      
   'Inflation 1,600%   
   Unemployment 80%   
   Population living on less than £1 a day 80%   
   Gross domestic product down 30% in ?ve years   
   Life expectancy (men) 37 years   
   Life expectancy (women) 34 years   
   Infant mortality 60 per thousand live births   
   HIV/Aids one in five adults infected   
      
   PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's endlessly proclaimed illusion of Zimbabwean   
   democracy, prosperity and health and education for all reached its most   
   surreal extreme at a party held yesterday costing 300m Zimbabwe dollars to   
   celebrate his 83rd birthday.   
   This sum would have been worth £150,000 when officials of the ruling Zanu-PF   
   began collecting for the event in December, but by this weekend it was down   
   to £23,000, so fast is the currency falling in value.   
   Mugabe mingled with the 20,000 guests in the Mboka football stadium in the   
   city of Gweru and used a lengthy speech to condemn homosexuality. The party   
   was shown on national tele-vision, although viewers in Harare suffered a   
   power cut.'   
      
   http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article1434858.ece   
      
      
   ROBBIE   
      
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