News about Zimbabwe that you can use
Former Zimbabwean journalist Sydney Masamvu has attracted a lot of attention following revelations that he was working closely with the United States embassy in Pretoria and was providing the embassy with impressive insights and analysis.
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International Crisis Group analyst Sydney Masamvu told United States embassy officials in South Africa that when Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono came to South Africa to discuss a bailout, Gono told him that Mugabe had given him free rein to discuss the loan.
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Nathaniel Manheru (the pen name for Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba) blasted the international media for inaccurately reporting on the situation in Zimbabwe.
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Under headline “It’s time to flush out the Saddams of this world” the March 27 edition of the independent weekly “The Financial Gazette” carried an opinion piece by Sydney Masamvu – the paper’s Assistant Editor – on page 18 in which he hails the ongoing United States-led military campaign to disarmIraq, saying, “The year 2003 should be dedicated to flushing out dictators the world over – in Baghdad, Havana, Jakarta, southern Africa – and send them running.”
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The privately owned weekly Financial Gazette has appointed Nqobile Nyathi, 29, as editor. Nyathi replaces veteran journalist Francis Mdlongwa who led the “FinGaz” from 1997 to 2002.
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Under the headline Martial Law Looms, the August 9 edition of the independent weekly The Financial Gazette carried the following lead article by the paper’s political editor, Sydney Masamvu:
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Uzumba/Pfungwe Member of Parliament Simba Mudarikwa has finally been confirmed as the legislator who likened the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front “to a troop of baboons incessantly fighting among themselves, but coming together to face an external threat”.
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