Zambia: Follies are met with shrugs - Corruption doesn't rile accepting populace

While nearly three-quarters of the population earns less than $1 a day, the new foreign minister was cleared of involvement in the theft of nearly $500, 000 of public money. Almost every day, evidence surfaces to suggest Zambia's unpopular governing party rigged last month's presidential election in favor of a candidate whose sometimes bumbling syntax has earned him the nickname "the vegetable."