Zim 'diesel conjurer' gets 3 years

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http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/Zim-diesel-conjurer-gets-3-years-20100930

News24 said:
Harare - A Zimbabwean spirit medium has been jailed for more than three years for bamboozling President Robert Mugabe's powerful politburo into believing she could conjure diesel fuel from a rock, reports said on Thursday.

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The gullible aides believed she had the answer to the country's crippling fuel shortages then and gave her £1.7m, a farm, an armed guard, food and, on one occasion, a 50-vehicle convoy, to carry out her rituals.

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He also disclosed that Tobaiwa Mudede, the registrar general in charge of the issue of all personal documentation, had supplied Tagarira with 125 litres of diesel fuel to use in her performances.

After the administration woke up to the fact they had been hoaxed, Mudede had hid the medium from the police, the court heard.

However, no action is known to have been taken against Mudede, who has been in charge of managing elections for most of the last 30 years, including a decade of disputed polls.
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I would say I'm surprised that the idiots who believed this woman aren't getting prison time, but then I remembered it's a country run by a madman. And of course the guy who "manages" (read: fiddles) the elections isn't going to get into trouble because he's responsible for keeping Mad Mugs in power.

How can Africa ever hope to progress beyond the dark ages as long as people this gullible/stupid are allowed to hold government posts? Honestly it boggles the mind.
 
Bwahahaha, the ones who believed her should be sent to school for 3 years.
 
SA business men were duped with diesel from algae conversion schemes. Took some for millions. Cart blanch show some months back. Hey the Nigerians are good at these sort of things.
 
Leostar said:
SA business men were duped with diesel from algae conversion schemes. Took some for millions. Cart blanch show some months back. Hey the Nigerians are good at these sort of things.
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Except this is Zimbabwe we're talking about, not Nigeria.
 
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