President Mugabe never ceases to amaze and annoy people. The economic state of  Zimbabwe and the state of the citizens is worst than anything one can imagine under the sun and yet Mugabe decided to give 300,000 dollars out like that…. Read below for more

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Harare – Zimbabwe’s representative in Africa’s Big Brother reality TV show landed in second place, but took home a prize bigger than the official jackpot, a gift from President Robert Mugabe’s family.

Munyaradzi Chidzonga lost out to Nigeria’s Uti Nwachukwu, who won the official $200 000 prize from the show that locks contestants from around the continent in a house. But the 24-year-old received a $300 000 cheque from President Robert Mugabe, state media said.

The money was collected through a campaign spearheaded by Harare businessman Phillip Chiyangwa, a relative and close ally of the veteran ruler, who reportedly thought the voting on the show was unfair. It’s not clear if 86-year-old Mugabe himself actually watched the show. “I didn’t think you would survive because you looked so young, perhaps the youngest of them all,” Mugabe told Munyaradzi as he handed over the cheque.

“It was Nigeria versus Zimbabwe and Nigeria is a very big country, so you deferred to Nigeria. But both of you won and from our point of view, for us, you were the winner.”

However, some people said the awarding of the money was a case of misplaced priorities in a country that struggles to pay teachers their meagre salaries of around $150 a month. “Once again, we are the masters of misplaced priorities,” one Shamba Shambamuto wrote in a letter to the privately owned News Day.

“If we can give this contestant a whopping $300;000, then surely we can do more for our suffering masses who live in perpetual hunger, sickness and economic marginalisation.”

Source: News24