http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-peoples-convention-and-5-hotels/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-peoples-convention-and-5-hotels Kubatana.net speaks out from Zimbabwe Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:53:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/the-peoples-convention-and-5-hotels/#comment-73702 Global Voices Online » Zimbabwe: Is Dr. Simba Makoni a puppet? Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:56:19 +0000 http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/?p=354#comment-73702 [...] Is Dr. Simba Makoni Genuine? The recent announcement by the former Finance Minister, Dr. Simba Makoni, to challenge Robert Mugabe as a private candidate has received mixed feelings in the Zimbabwean blogosphere. Kubatana blog writes: The only people who don’t seem vaguely fazed by Simba Makoni’s election bid are the beauticians in Cleopatra’s Beauty Parlour next to my office. They seem to have fallen asleep face first in their towels. Yesterday, a friend of mine called Anna, told me that its a good thing that Simba is posing some sort of challenge to Mugabe because, in her words, “Mugabe is an old man and doesn’t listen to the people”. There’s truth in that. [...]

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