Sling your hook Charamba!

Sling your hook Charamba!

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By Staff Reporter

NEW Zimbabwe.com readers have told President Robert Mugabe's blundering spokesman George Charamba to sling his hook after he fired a volley of direct threats aimed at this website.

Our readers wasted no time telling the sanctimonious British-trained government apologist what they thought of his "serious consequences" threat tio their favourite online Zimbabwe newspaper.

We received tens of e-mails from our loyal readers telling Mugabe's minion to zip it and willing us on.

"Charamba and his Department of Misinformation should be told to sling their hooks," our reader from the UK Brighton Musonza said.

"Zimbabwean people have had enough of these muppets. New Zimbabwe.com must refuse to be shoved around by an old school "Cde" salvaging a sinking boat wrecked by a Tsunami wave. I urge you to keep reporting fearlessly as you have always done," he added.

Another reader Farai Majuru said: "Charamba wants to treat Zimbabweans like mushrooms - i.e. kept in the dark and fed on manure. I sincerely hope that New Zimbabwe.com will not be intimated."

Charamba launched a savage tirade aimed at New Zimbabwe.com after our scoop revealing that State Security Minister Nicholas Goche and his Local Government counterpart Ignatius Chonbo were the two ministers under investigation over the Spy-gate scandal.

Charamba warned of "serious consequences, including legal ones".

"Ignore Charamba," our reader Nyarai Masunda, wrote from Montreal, Canada.

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New Zimbabwe.com editor Mduduzi Mathuthu said last night: "George Charamba should be devoting his energy to fighting spies whose fingerprints are all over this pointless press statement he sent out. He should expect more of the same."

Charamba said journalists should stick "strictly to court proceedings as briefed to them by those in the know or handling the case", claiming there were national security concerns.

"The recent spate of speculative pieces on the matter, some of them quite incriminating and defamatory to individuals who include Government ministers, was needless and certainly contrary to the requirements of the law and good journalism," Charamba railed.

President Mugabe's nephew and Chinhoyi legislator Phillip Chiyangwa, Zimbabwe’s Ambassador-designate to Mozambique Godfrey Dzvairo, Zanu-PF director of external affairs Itai Marchi, the party’s deputy security chief Kenny Karidza and former banker Tendai Matambanadzo have appeared in court charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.

They are accused of selling State secrets to unnamed foreign governments.
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