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Now they say Tsvangirai can be our Clinton
A RESPECTED colleague and long-standing friend recently subjected me to an angry harangue for suggesting that Morgan Tsvangirai’s sexual wassails are proof that the MDC-T leader cannot be trusted with the leadership of this country. I was told to get … Read more
Tsvangirai: legend of the carnal seas
IT was Oscar Wilde who suggested that only the ugly and the stupid have the best of this world, and the matter of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and the many women in his life suggests that, that equally scandalised 19th … Read more
Kereke should check in with his shrinks
MUNYARADZI Kereke, the former central bank adviser, must think Zimbabweans are mental dunces who are enamoured of his brilliant self that we will let him treat us with the selfish disregard of a lover who tantalises you with the preliminaries … Read more
When self-indulgent wishes set news agenda
THE recent media shambles regarding President Robert Mugabe’s latest trip to Asia brought into the open two of the terminal maladies feasting at the core of Zimbabwean journalism from the time our national politics became so perilously conflicted and degenerated … Read more
Election debate and lies that tell the truth
PRINCIPALS to the coalition government and their respective political parties have lately been doing much talking about the conflicted question of new elections this year, and yet we remain unclear whether or not the said polls will go ahead. Still, … Read more
Mugabe: death betakes man, never his legacy
THE recent frenzied media speculation over President Robert Mugabe’s health attracted a robust and typically acerbic rebuttal from ex-information minister Professor Jonathan Moyo, who demanded of those behind the rumours to state whether they were witches driven by malice or … Read more
Why diesel mystic is a national treasure
SECTIONS of the police and state prosecution service must be suffering a dangerous infestation of opposition sympathisers keen to thoroughly embarrass Zanu PF ahead of general elections now expected next year. For how else does one explain the whacky decision … Read more
Post-Mugabe turmoil, what turmoil?
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe recently felt sufficiently miffed by the increasing speculation over his health that he took the unusual step of granting an extensive interview to specifically address and hopefully dowse the rumours. Images of a frail looking Mugabe walking … Read more
Mugabe has outmaneuvered MDC
A COLLEAGUE reacted to news that President Robert Mugabe would seek re-election if asked by Zanu PF, and that such elections could be held whether or not there was a new constitution, by saying the elderly gent was having a … Read more
The internet and media reform in Zimbabwe
COMMENTS recently attributed to MDC-T spokesman and Information Communication Technology Minister Nelson Chamisa regarding government’s inordinate delays in licensing private and commercial broadcasters serve as an alarming reminder of how terribly misdirected the media reform debate in Zimbabwe has become. … Read more
How Mugabe outfoxed Amanpoor
Unprepared … CNN’s Amanpour found wanting in Mugabe interview CNN’S Chief International Correspondent, Christine Amanpour’s interview with President Robert Mugabe on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly was appallingly inept and very nearly scandalous. Indeed outraged … Read more
Propaganda and the GPA
QUITE apart from being evidently ridiculous, the sudden emergence of a whole catalogue of titles preceding any and all mention of President Robert Mugabe’s name in the state media also demonstrates just how perverse the game of perception management has … Read more
