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The fall prompted a number of postings showing the Zimbabwean president surfing, fleeing riot police and riding a horse, to name but three.
The chain, reports BD Live issued a statement: "Nando's Zimbabwe would like to assure the people of Zimbabwe that this advertisement was neither created nor sanctioned by Nando's," the chain said in an advert published in Zimbabwe's state-run government mouthpiece, the Herald newspaper.