The Insider

President Robert Mugabe says former Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere deserves to be honoured as one of Africa’s true liberation heroes. Nyerere accommodated most of the liberation movements from Southern Africa and experimented with a new form of socialism in his country before opening up to capitalism. Here is what he thought about change and leadership, a year before he died.

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The Member of Parliament for Umzingwane William Dhewa says there has been no development project in his constituency over the past 15 years and he attributed this to lack of “true and genuine leadership”.

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The Movement for Democratic Change has suspended the councillor for Budiriro, Sydney Chirombe, over allegations of sodomy.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai is under siege. His leading lieutenants, especially those that control funds, want him to go. And it seems, they have the support of the principal backers of the MDC. The problem is that Tsvangirai lost the elections to Mugabe for the third time. And he has been at the helm of the party for 15 years. But the West is not acknowledging its role in Tsvangirai’s defeat in last year’s elections.

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President Robert Mugabe yesterday said the Movement for Democratic Change and the West do not know what hit them and were totally caught by surprise when the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front won last year’s elections.

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The secretary-general of the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa, Frans Baleni, today warned his counterparts from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa that there is no Morgan Tsvangirai or Frederick Chiluba option in South Africa.

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President Robert Mugabe returned home this morning from Singapore where he had gone to have an eye operation. Speculation about his health had started doing the rounds in the media after he failed to return home yesterday to mark his 90th birthday. The official party, however, is at Marondera tomorrow.

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Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters has congratulated President Robert Mugabe on his 90th birthday saying he is a symbol of Africa’s resistance against colonial pressure and a stalwart of all things prosperous for Africa.

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Moyo appoints new board for ZBC- Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has appointed a new board for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. It is chaired by Dennis Magaya. Other members are: Ndabezinhle Dlodlo, Phyllis Johnson, Gelfand Kausiyo, Donald Khumalo,Joyce Jenje-Makwenda, Charity Manyeruke, Rudo Mudavanhu, Father Gibson Munyoro, Cleopatra Matanhire-Mutisi and Blessing Rugara. The new board replaces that of Cuthbert Dube which was fired last year for failing to restructure the national broadcaster. The chief executive Happison Muchechetere was sent on leave after revelations that he was earning nearly US$40 000 a month including allowances. Moyo said: “Among other urgent tasks before it, the new ZBC board is expected, and indeed required, to restructure and turn around ZBC to ensure it has the right skills to make it commercially viable and technologically sound as a public broadcaster with a national mandate in light of the challenges of digital migration and the requirements of Zimbabwe’s new Constitution and informed by the outcome of the forensic and strategy audit of the ZBC that is about to be done by independent auditors under the auspices of the Comptroller and Auditor-General.”

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