wife Grace, at the launch of his party's election
campaign in Harare, Friday, July, 5, 2013. AP Photo/
Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi
President Robert Mugabe has offered a $300,000
reward to anyone who can unmask an anonymous
whistleblower behind a string of leaks about alleged
Zimbabwean government assassination plots,
corruption and plans to rig this month's election.
The well-informed mole, who calls himself "Baba
Jukwa" and appears to be operating from within the
heart of the regime, began posting revelations on a
Facebook page four months ago.
The page has 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 telephone
numbers.
Reassuring government statements about 89-year-old
Mr Mugabe's health have been contradicted regularly,
so infuriating the president that he offered the reward
for exposing the mole – details of which were revealed
by Baba Jukwa.
I told you there will be body bags coming
this year… The war has begun
Determined attempts by senior Zanu-PF party
officials to persuade Facebook to close the page failed
and the president has now reportedly appealed to
friends in the Chinese government for technical
support to censor the site and identify its user.
The most unnerving postings by the mole – or moles,
as seems more likely – were published last month and
warned of an assassination plot against a former
government minister who was suspected by Zanu-PF
of leaking information.
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