EDITOR – I am fed up of watching and listening to state-controlled electronic media. I once had an argument with an elderly Zanu (PF) sympathiser and he assured me that the amendments to AIPPA and POSA would bring fair coverage to all political parties.
Certainly, I would not buy such cheap rhetoric and look what is happening right now. The news is full of Zanu (PF) candidates campaigning. Does that mean that the opposition is not campaigning? For instance, there was a rally in Mutare that attracted at least 20,000 people and a birthday bash that attracted at least 5,000 people and you probably guessed right about which event received the most media coverage.
The media follows the Zanu (PF) candidates wherever they are, to the extent of following naChinotimba here? Mbeki must be ashamed because the mediation failed dismally. What if the crisis in Zimbabwe affects the 2010 World Cup?
I would like warn the ruling party that very few people trouble themselves with ZBC and I have since dumped it.
KARUPA, Bulawayo
Not enough to buy a single pencil
EDITOR – The educational system has virtually collapsed here in Zimbabwe, even though the State keeps pretending everything is all right. All teachers have stopped coming to school because they cannot afford the bus fare.
It seems like soldiers will be extra busy this year. After marking both A and O level exams, they are like to be called upon to man classrooms because teachers are likely to return to work after the old man’s exit on the 29th. Hopefully, they won’t turn schools into Border Gezi camps of rape and torture.
Here at Cecil John Rhodes in Gweru where I am a student, pupils just come to school to play. We are not allowed to strike despite the fact that we only get $1m per month, which is supposed to cater for our educational needs, even though it cannot buy an HB pencil.
It’s sad that Mugabe can choose to blow $13 trillion on his birthday when education is dying. Surely the heartless dictator is not sensitive at all. However, that he will be gone by the 29th has always consoled me.
ZVICHAPERA, Gweru
A coward who demands too little
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