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SMS to 0778 140 916 Forty words maximum IN response to Mutodi fired, GWIZHIKITI says: Good riddance. Finally some sense has knocked in President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s head. One way or the other, he had to get rid of the rabble-rouser, fired Informatio­n deputy minister Energy Mutodi. He had stoked several fires and it has backfired for him. Sometime ago, Mutodi said Ndebele people were foreigners in this country. That was too low an opinion by him. Then he had a go at Tanzanian President John Magufuli, berating him for his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in his country. Mutodi a few days ago also lashed out at his boss, Monica Mutsvangwa and her husband, Chris. At the same time, he had a public spat with Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, after the latter had rebuked him over the Tanzania COVID-19 statement. So good riddance.

KWANELE says: President Emmerson Mnangagwa should have retained Mutodi. Such clueless characters are needed, especially in a clueless government like Mnangagwa’s. They complete the puzzle of what entails a clueless administra­tion. I wept when I heard that Mutodi had been sacked. I would have wanted to have the circle complete and show the world what they were happy for when the November 2017 coup was staged.

IN response to ED warns Chamisa

over demos, MAZVANYA says: President Emmerson Mnangagwa must make it stick in his head, that he has failed to run the country. When you see even your advisers speaking out against your administra­tion, then know that everything you are doing is very wrong. The die has been cast. Mnangagwa has no way out. Rather than denouncing State brutality, abductions and torture in this beautiful country, he takes advantage of Absolom Sikhosana’s burial to spew anger over dissent. This is worrisome, especially when it’s coming from someone who has been touting himself as a reformist.

IN response to Malawi judges feast

on CJ Malaba, MBUDAYA says: Surely these men and women are making our country a laughing stock. They are so engrossed with holding onto power that they will do the impossible and make ridiculous judgments as long as they stay in power. I now agree with the late former President Robert Mugabe that after him, there would be no one to take Zimbabwe forward. Maybe Sydney Sekeramayi would have done better had it happened that Mugabe had bequeathed power to him. Not this laughing stock which is leading us into dark alleys and dense forests.

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