re beneath contempt and we will not dignify them with a response.
For the record, Mahoso, who is well known to suffer from a pathological hatred for the independent media, has been responsible for the closure of five newspapers during his tenure as chairman of the Media and Information Commission.
We have evidence that this unelected official met recently with the minister of information to find a way of depriving those Zimbabweans still inside the country of access to the independent news reported in our columns.
We would remind him that The Zimbabwean newspaper is now available in 82 countries around the world and cannot be silenced.
In an effort to fool the populace, Mahoso’s paymasters have been busy jamming independent radio stations run by Zimbabweans and interfering with email, internet and telephonic communications.
The pen is indeed mightier than the sword – as oppressors throughout history have learnt to their cost. No wonder Mahoso and the Mugabe regime are so desperate to silence independent voices, drowning all dissension in a barrage of coarse propaganda that nobody believes any more.
Who is left?
The insanity that has characterised the goings on in Zimbabwe over the past few weeks is unprecedented. The frenzied looting of all remaining goods – from bread to cement, and televisions to fuel – largely by party fatcats and the uniformed forces has stunned the world.
The report of the arrest of a farm manager on one of the few remaining commercial farms for allegedly planting wheat is a tragic demonstration of a regime gone mad, as is the ongoing arrest of businessmen for not slashing their prices by 50%.
It is sobering to reflect that the Zanu (PF) regime has steadily devoured Zimbabwe. First they went for the Ndebeles (Gukurahundi), then for the whites (jambanja), then for the commercial farmers and farm workers (land reform), then the media and individual journalists, then rural teachers, then the urban poor (Murambatsvina), then the MDC, then civic society and labour leaders, then university students, then the
mines, then the businessmen. Who is left?
Word for Today:
I heard and my heart pounded .. decay crept into my bones and my legs trembled. Yet I will wait patiently for the day of calamity to come on the nation invading us. Though the fig-tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, through the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LOD, I will be joyful in God my Saviour. Habakkuk 3;16-18
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