Dear Sir

Zimbabweans at home and in the Diaspora are appalled to hear that Mr Caesar Zvayi, formerly of The Herald, is teaching students at a respected University in Botswana.

He may be skilled as a communicator, but then so have many other promoters of Hate Speech been skilled at their job – to lie and distort the truth! This man did much to abuse the function of the Press in Zimbabwe, and as such his actions have contributed to the death of press freedom in that country, and to the imprisonment, torture and murder of journalists. He’s as much use to an aspiring journalism or communications student as Lord Haw Haw – students need to learn from someone they can respect and look up to.

I suggest that your students be encouraged to read editions of the newspaper that were published on his watch for themselves, and to analyse the discourse therein to see how he and his colleagues exercised his “art” to destroy the truth and conceal the facts – then let them decide if this is someone they would like to emulate in any way.