Redefining public media

IN 1789, there was Queen Marie-Antoinette, a woman who was the immediate cause of the French Revolution.

Some 235 years later, in Zimbabwe, there is the First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, a woman who can’t get enough of herself in the public or State-controlled media.

The example may look far-fetched, but in more than a dozen ways are closely similar.

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