Mphoko hits some right notes

On February 6 2015 it was reported that embattled Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko brought the house down in Bulawayo when he told his audience that Zesa, and Zinwa’s creation and the subsequent takeover of electricity and water distribution by the two parastatals, had been to Bulawayo’s disadvantage.

The VP, not given to “political language”, had told the truth.

Political language, George Orwell is reputed to have written, is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

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