Saturday 22 February 2014

Al Jazeera "Inside Story: Robert Mugabe turns 90" the worst ever - had the worst panellists ever!

Dear Inside Story Presenter

I think you could have got a lot more interesting and relevant things aired if you had not picked a  Mugabe apologist, a Tsvangirai apologist and the third panellist whose ideas were so wishy-washy he too said nothing of note.

Nick Mangwana is retelling the same old lie of sanctions being responsible for the country's economic mess. Mugabe has denied there was corruption but recent stories have shown this was a lie. The level of corruption has been so much so that it soaked up all the organisation's money. ZBC managers wages and corrupt deals, for example, took up everything there was nothing left for the ordinary lowly paid workers. It is nonsense to maintain that the economy could prosper under such conditions.

MDC failed to get even one democratic reforms implemented, they were naïve to think the could be free and fair elections without the reforms. Only a totally discredited person like Obert Gutu would still sing Tsvangirai's praise showing he, like Tsvangirai, have completely failed to comprehend the enormity of MDC's political incompetence even with the benefit of hindsight.

Chofamba Sithole has no idea of the depth of Zimbabwe's political and economic mess otherwise he would not have portrayed Mugabe as someone in control. Mugabe has kept the Zanu PF dictatorship together all these 34 years by allowing party loyalists to be corrupt but now corruption has grown so big it is choking everything.

Mugabe himself has amassed a vast wealth through corruption and so have all those around him and that is why he has never done anything to stamp it out. How can he end corruption when it is the only thing that has kept him and Zanu PF in power. We all know giving up power, regime change, is something utterly unthinkable for Mugabe and his Zanu PF cabal!  

Al Jazeera has come along way as one of the leading media giants in the world and Inside Story is one of its great programmes. Sadly, "Robert Mugabe turns 90" will be one of your worst programmes because the three panellists had nothing of substance to say.

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