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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