In the beginning the Nazis burnt all the books
consider subversive to the narrow Aryan Race Nazi ideology and then they tried
to fill the gap with trash chained out by Propaganda Minister Josef Goebbels,
dim-witted philosophers, etc. History has the habit of repeating itself!
Soon after independence President Mugabe has
institute a ruthless control of the Zimbabwe’s media turning the country’s
public print media and the country’s only licensed radio and tv stations into some
of the most tightly controlled media in the world into total disregard to the
people’s right to a free media and freedom of expression. The regime has
haunted the country’s small independent print media arresting the journalists
and shutting down the paper at the drop of a hat.
The public media has been there to air Zanu PF’s
point of view and no other; for all intent and purpose, Zimbabwe’s public media
is nothing but Zanu PF’s publicity department in all but name. Having
eliminated everyone else with an opposing point of view to Mugabe is a great
leader ethos there thousands of square metres of newspaper column space and thousands
of hours of radio and TV air time to be filled. In stepped Zanu PF apologists,
propagandists and all manner characters with all manner of idiotic ideas, chief
amongst them was Nathaniel Manheru cum George Charamba, to fill the columns and
air time.
Nathaniel Manheru has had a column in the Herald and
Sunday Mail for donkey years; he is President Mugabe’s spokesman, who would
dare deny him all the column space he wants to say whatever! And that is
exactly what he has done too subjected the reading public to column after
column, week in week out, of trash!
“2016
arrived nine days ago,” wrote Manheru in his latest article. “Or so we allege.
As before, and before, on New Year the sun still rose from the east, still set
in the west. The clock - not time - ticked as before, giving us an illusion of
recording reality, of time past, time present, time future. Arguably, there is
no time past, no time future. Only a continual, eternal present in which we
inhere for a little while, and, when our life is spent, then decay or depart to
. . . we don't know where. And not to know where is not quite the same as not
to believe where. The priest — or is it pastor nowadays — tells us we head
heaven-or hell-wards, depending on our goodness or its deficit. Gentle reader,
I hope you notice I slipped. Nowadays? How nowadays when I have repudiated a
past-present-future continuum? How nowadays when I have repudiated time and
periodisation?”
The
article was entitled “Zimbabwe: New Year, Old Thinking!”
“What is the nincompoop wittering about?” you may well ask.
Like the Nazi, Zanu PF has stifled all meaningful debate, free media and
freedom of expression and so the regime has to file the empty columns with
nonsense from the modern day Josef Goebbels, Nathaniel Manheru!
The nation is facing some really serious problems, people are dying from the worsening economic situation and the president's spokesman writes page after page of nonsense. It is very sad and tragic indeed!
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DeleteWhen a nation is forced to read and listen to such mind-numbing nonsense for 36 years; it is easy to see why so many of our are now totally incapable of thinking of any coherent. They have been completely brainwashed into mindless zombies!
People like Charamba must be answer for this one of these fine days! He can afford to pay for the damage he has done, after all the millions he has been paid by the regime for his dirty work.
I agree, we must institute some restorative justice system so that the victims of the corrupt and tyrannical dictatorship are helped from some of the looted wealth recovered from those who have benefited from the dictatorship!
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