03/05/2024
Happy World Press Freedom Day.
What a time to be a journalist in Zimbabwe!
‘It was the best and the worst of times’, so goes an old adage, and oh how apt it is for practicing journalists in our country today.
The House of Hunger is certainly going through a metamorphosis.
People in the corridors of power are running around losing their minds like cockroaches in a tin of gamatox.
The economic situation needs rescuing; the Zimbabwean market is struggling to understand currency issues and there is social unrest in the undercurrents of the nation
The opposition parties are smelling rats everywhere and some opposition bigwigs seem to be either jumping ship or re-strategising, depending on who you are.
Zimbabwe seems to have been driven into a de facto one party state since the Tshabangu inspired recalls succcesfully gifted the ‘Rural Party’ with a two thirds majority on a silver platter.
The mammoth move by, Nelson ‘FullStop’ Chamisa has added fuel to the fire in a proper NoNonsense move and the centres on both sides seem unable to hold.
President Mnangagwa has, on the other hand, seemingly gone all out in mobilising his arsenal and appointees to justify the failing environment by coming up with a solution to the monetary problems that have dogged Zimbabwe for years now.
Put yourself in the shoes of a storyteller and imagine all this unfolding…however, with no guaranteed freedoms if you are to tell the story as it is.
Indeed, what a time to be a journalist in Zimbabwe!
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