The 2016 Zimbabwe cabinet score card-There seemed to be some competition about who could ruin the economy most

Chris Mushohwe, Information Minister
Rating: B

The last big news from Mushohwe this year? A lengthy statement warning witch hunters, Tsikamutandas.

It was a pattern. He spent all of 2016, releasing one cringe worthy statement after another.

There was the one on Ian Khama, accusing him of breaking “African taboos and etiquette” for stating that Mugabe needed a rest.

Then the one on US ambassador Harry Thomas Jr’s criticism of police brutality: “He has a short nose like ours and one would think that he thinks like an African,” wrote Mushohwe. Thomas should focus on the police brutality in America.

Then the one on Julius Malema, after the EFF leader called on Mugabe to retire. Malema was “a young and impressionable politician, who has turned himself into a veritable blunt weapon for bludgeoning liberation movements on behalf of imperialism.”

Not to forget the time Mushohwe denied Mugabe had trouble walking. “Did you carry him?” he shouted.

His finest moment was the time when NewsDay suggested Mugabe dozed off during a meeting in Japan. Mushohwe replied: “One could see President Mugabe nodding his head in response to the message being delivered by the Japanese Prime Minister.”

For making sure Zimbabwe is seen as the caricature banana republic – because all such republics have comical spokesmen – Mushowe gets top rating.

Continued next page with Patrick Zhuwao

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