Arthur Mutambara's Blunder
Professor Arthur Mutambara is a friend. I have known the deputy Prime Minister-designate to be fiery and indeed fearless. But his latest offering, an article entitled The Inconvenient Truth About The West went overboard in its language and was most certainly ill-advised. He has good points, but these are drowned out by a torrent of invective that does nothing for his image and reinforces prejudices against him. I remember, as I am sure a large number of you do, Mugabe's riot squads tracking Mutambara down using the trail of blood he left behind as he evaded them at the University of Zimbabwe campus. He had been injured in a raid of the premises. He was Student Representative Council President, and he is still as fiery as he was back then. He is a brave man who speaks his mind, I give him that. But he must realise that now, he is the deputy Prime Minister Designate of Zimbabwe. A diplomat. Calling world leaders "unintelligent (stupid, basically), incompetent" and calling...