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Mugabe to celebrate birthday with televised lobster feast
Guests will enjoy lobster, prawns and caviar to be washed down with bottles of Johnnie Walker Blue Label and Chevas Regal whiskeys.
The 12-hour gala in Bulawayo will feature Jamaican reggae star Sizzla Kalonji who has been flown into the country for the occasion.
He will lead more than 30 musicians in the party which will start at 6pm and finish at 6am on Saturday.
The Zimbabwean president celebrated his actual 86th birthday last Sunday and has attended a number of parties including one at the Chinese embassy in the capital Harare.
Many in the rival Movement for Democratic Change have said the party is tasteless as the country suffers acute poverty.