Mugabe 'tried to solve fuel crisis with witchcraft'

Desperate Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe employed a witch doctor who claimed she could produce diesel from rocks in an attempt to ease the nation's crippling fuel shortages, it was revealed today.

She was given two head of cattle, three buffaloes, money, a car and a piece of land from Mugabe and other cabinet ministers, promising in return to use spells to produce the diesel outside Chinhoyi, 70 miles from Harare.