That being said, Mugabe's attempts to maintain his political power have gotten truly surreal:
On his first day as education minister in a government so broke that most schools were closed and millions of children idle, David Coltart said he got a startling invitation.(I would have offered him silver, or metallic blue, myself.)
“Come and get your brand-new white Mercedes,” an official told Mr. Coltart, a veteran opposition politician, as President Robert Mugabe peered down from a portrait on the minister’s office wall.
The offer of an E-Class Mercedes to every minister in the month-old power-sharing government was vintage Mugabe, an effort to seduce his political enemies with the lavish perks he has long bestowed on loyalists.
I'm an optimist, and see this as a sign of weakness.
Mugabe had previously dismissed the MDC entirely, and how he is trying to bribe them.
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