By LARRY MADOWOMore by this AuthorRr Robert Mugabe is probably going to live forever; it is time to accept that. The 27th World Economic Forum on Africa, at which Mugabe had spoken, had closed the previous day in the South African coastal city of Durban. So it was fascinating to have him on a WEF panel on fragile states, where he named Zimbabwe “the second most developed country” after South Africa, a solid alternative fact. “In South Africa, three billionaires own the same wealth as the poorest half of the population – around 28 million people,” it had said. He had a busy schedule, holding bilateral meetings with his South African counterpart and trying to get WEF to host its 2018 African gathering in Nairobi.

Source: Daily Nation May 09, 2017 16:30 UTC