Let Them Wear Gucci!

This whole Zimbabwe issue reminds me so much of the French Revolution…Maria Antoinette – the Austrian-born spouse of the then French King, Louis XVI (Grace Mugabe is from South Africa), lording it over the miserable and hungry French and allegedly saying, “Let them eat cake” as she was told the people were rioting due to hunger only for her to be later arrested and imprisoned and ….
In spite of Grace Mugabe’s excesses, no one can blame her for Mugabe’s dictatorship and destruction of Zimbabwe. However, if instead of that wimpy coup (I don’t know if one can really use the word “coup” to describe that feeble attempt), there had been a French-Revolution-style uprising by the people, guess who they would have gone for first? You see, the angry mob always goes for the most visible sign of a dictator’s greed. In this case, it would be….