Mr Mugabe, who recently celebrated his 74th birthday by announcing that he had no plans to retire after nearly 18 years in power, also fulminated against the unions.
The British tabloids have repeatedly fulminated about the "madness" of Polish workers in Britain whose children back in Poland receive British child benefit payments: which is not mad at all, but legal and reasonable, as their fathers are working legally in Britain and paying their taxes and National Insurance contributions.