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| The US ambassador Christopher Dell stormed out of a meeting yesterday when he was told President Mugabe's regime would not answer questions about attacks on opposition politicians. Mugabe may have a low opinion of foreign ambassadors - he is threatening to deport any who go on "abusing his hospitality" - but he has a high opinion of himself. His latest top secret project is to establish a magnificent shrine commemorating his life and achievements. While the country struggles to find foreign currency to buy food and fuel, Mugabe is spending $400,000 on the Robert Mugabe Memorial. Work, under the direction of local government minister Ignatius Chombo, has already begun in Mugabe's home town, Zvimba. The president, now 83, is apparently anxious for it to be completed while |  | |  | |
 | | | While his country struggles, Robert Mugabe builds a vast memorial to himself | | | he lives, so he can open it himself. The memorial will cover an area the size of a football pitch, and depict the former guerrilla leader's life and role in the country's liberation struggle. It will include a statue, and reproductions of his clothes and letters from prison. The material for the construction has been sourced in Asia, and architects are expected to fly in to Harare in early April. Mugabe enjoys a grand and extravagant life. He has built his own retirement home - a 25-bedroom mansion in the suburb of Borrowdale Brook, some 16 miles north of Harare. Aerial pictures of this project show the building to look like a medium-sized hotel. But it is his grandiose memorial at Zvimba by which his fellow citizens will remember Mugabe - that, and the pitiful state of ruin and despair to which he has reduced his country.  FIRST POSTED MARCH 20, 2007 | | |
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