Bobby Mugabe has a bright shiny new idea

El Supremo Elected President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has spent the last couple of years driving his country into the ground. He has a brilliant idea on how to bring in much needed cash (Zimbabwe was once one of the richest nations in Africa and a food exporter -- after Mugabe took over, it became a food importer.) Michael J. Totten delivers the goods: bq. Weirder Than Libya When you visit another country you meet other people who are also visiting the country. Inevitably you�ll discuss other places you�ve been. If you go to Costa Rica you�ll meet people who�ve been to Guatemala and Bolivia. Go to Cancun and you�ll meet people who like the Virgin Islands and Hawaii. Go to France and you�ll run into lots of people who talk about London, Prague, and Vienna. bq. So what happens when you bump into others in Libya? I met a photographer who spends every summer in Darfur. And I met a British guy named Felix who told me the next place he wants to go is North Korea. Shelly said she wants to go to North Korea, too. Felix grinned ear to ear. �It�s great to meet people who are open-minded about nuttiness,� he said. bq. My nutty �tourism� package is only a few days old. (I say �tourism� because although I went as a journalist, no one in Libya knew that.) I figured North Korea might be the only place left for me to go after Ghaddafi-stan. Well, no, not exactly. There is at least one more �tourism� package weirder than Libya but less freaky than North Korea. But I can�t go on this one because I am not fat.
ZIMBABWE has come up with a bizarre proposal to solve the food crisis threatening half its population with starvation. It wants to bring in obese tourists from overseas so that they can shed pounds doing manual labour on land seized from white farmers. The so-called Obesity Tourism Strategy was reported last week in The Herald, a government organ whose contents are approved by President Robert Mugabe�s powerful information minister, Jonathan Moyo. Pointing out that more than 1.2 billion people worldwide are officially deemed to be overweight, the article exhorted Zimbabweans to �tap this potential�. �Tourists can provide labour for farms in the hope of shedding weight while enjoying the tourism experience,� it said, adding that Americans spent $6 billion a year on �useless� dieting aids.
I had written about Bobby Mugabe before here. here. here. here. here. here and here...

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