Wednesday 17 July 2013

Zimbabwean internet mole has $300,000 price on his head

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe has placed a $300,000 bounty on the head of the now infamous Baba Jukwa, an internet mole and alleged Zanu-PF party insider, who is divulging secret and insider party information through his Facebook page. The page has now been viewed more than a million times and he has amassed more than 239,000 followers, with hundreds of responses and shares to every update. Efforts to track down the mole have so far failed. His postings have accused government ministers of corruption and senior police chiefs of brutality, publishing their private mobile phone numbers. He has even posted photographs of the dead bodies of the party’s alleged enemies.

There are now reports that Mugabe is pulling strings at the Chinese government to help identify Jukwa and to help censor the website from the eyes of Zimbabwean internet users. It may be the case that the damage has already been done…


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