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Arthur Mutambara, Zimbabwe's other Deputy Prime Minister, is now using unorthodox means to try and reassert his authority in the party that he leads, the MDC. He lashed out at Mugabe and ZANU PF at the Nyanga Retreat a couple of weeks ago, but that was not what it seemed. It is simply amazing how may people have been taken in by this and what stories they have concocted around this outburst, the most prominent of which being that state media has been ordered to "attack" him in the wake of that Nyanga speech!! Harare, Zimbabwe, 07 September 2009 You may have read stories here and there stating that the state media had been "ordered to attack Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara" over the statements he made at the retreat in Nyanga to review the 100-day Wishlist that Tsvangirai tried to pass off as a "plan". Those reports are lies, full stop, period. The end. I had actually ignored the whole thing because I thought the truth was self-evident even to ...

Harare, Zimbabwe, Sunday 09 August 2009 A reader has just pointed out to me that a full day after I broke the story about Dabengwa being offered the Vice-presidency, NewZimbabwe have stolen the scoop and are trying to mislead readers that it is their story. Let them have fun, I say. Anyway. You have obviously noticed, if you read and listen to Zimbabwean State media, the sudden shift in the way Dumiso Dabengwa (known affectionately by all as DD) is treated by the media. Only a couple of months ago, the State media was pouring vitriol on the man who dumped ZANU PF and Mugabe's unity with ZAPU to revive the party of Joshua Nkomo. The State media at the time dismissed him as someone who had been "rejected" by the people of Matabeleland when he was in ZANU PF. They publicly sought to tarnish his Ndebele credentials by saying his surname was, in fact, Tavengwa, not Dabengwa. He changed his name to Dabengwa, the state media said, in order to Ndebelise himself. On the basis of t...