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Article: Big men, bankers and the stench of corruption
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2009
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Frederick Chiluba is a sharp dresser. The one-time bus conductor
who rose to become President of Zambia has a fondness for expensive
designer suits, his monogrammed shirts set off by matching silk ties
and handkerchiefs. While the majority of his fellow countrymen
struggled to survive on less than a dollar a day, he would think
nothing of jetting off to Geneva and dropping 300,000 in his
favourite clothes shop.
But like Imelda Marcos, it is the shoes that seem the most
insulting. This diminutive and vain man, who stands little over five
foot and was on an official salary of 52,000 a year, had more than
100 pairs made with two-inch heels, many displaying his initials in
brass. These size-six ...