702 Talk Radio this week featured author Martin Meredith and his new book, The State of Africa: A history of fifty years of independence (Jonathan Ball Publishers). Jenny Crwys-Williams asked him about the dictator we all love to hate, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, and his statement caught my ear ... "Robert Mugabe is like a man who having murdered his parents now wants the world to feel sorry for him because he is an orphan". Link to the book on Amazon here.One of the reasons I love 702 is because it is independent radio, that unlike the SABC does not have to filter absolutely everything through layers of political correctness and ANC spin.
Before moving south of the Limpopo a few years ago, 702 was a crackling, fade-in and fade-out listening must every evening on Medium Wave from Harare, and I confess: Rose and I are 702 addicted! The infamous Harvey Ward's control over the old Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation or the clownish control Jonathan Moyo had for a while over the ZBC stand in contrast to the freedom by comparison, in independent radio here in Sarth Effrika*. Give them a listen via their streaming audio feed, off their website. Or fast track here. * "South Africa, darling" as Jenny Crwys-Williams might say
For more (and better) coverage of current events in Zimbabwe, I recommend Rob Ellis' blog The Bearded Man. He does a great job with his available time, of filtering through loads of stuff on our behalf.
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