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The new television station and Manheru

Zimbabwe is to have a new “independent” television station from tonight run by people like Temba Hove, Andrew Chadwick and Violet Gonda, but I can’t wait to read what Nathaniel Manheru will say about the new channel tomorrow.

The channel coming two weeks before the elections and taking over the spot left by the South African Broadcasting Corporation makes for good reading.

I am sure Manheru will give us another spin on who owns it, who is behind it and what it is for. For example, there are interesting questions that remain unanswered.

Who is Andrew Chadwick?

Is he ex-Rhodesian as the Herald says?

Did he work for Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as a communications director?

Who was paying his salary?

Who is funding the new station?

The combination of Britain where the station will be broadcasting from, using an ex-Rhodesian who worked for Tsvangirai, alone gives Manheru a field day.

The roping in of Violet Gonda brings back SW Radio. Who funds it? It received some funding from the United States government when it was founded? So in comes Obama again.

This year’s election is providing more drama that I expected.

Court cases to stop elections that have already be carried out.

One million voters who should not be there!

How do you get a dead person to vote?

How do you get a person more than 100 years old to vote without raising suspicion?

This is really a thriller.

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Charles Rukuni

The Insider is a political and business bulletin about Zimbabwe, edited by Charles Rukuni. Founded in 1990, it was a printed 12-page subscription only newsletter until 2003 when Zimbabwe's hyper-inflation made it impossible to continue printing.

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