Sokwanele congratulates the students at the Gweru Midlands State University for standing up to a tyrant and saying ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.

Zim Standard : 23 November 2003

GWERU - Minister of Information Jonathan Moyo recently met a baptism of fire when he tried to address students at Gweru's Midlands State University.

Before he could start on his official speech, Moyo was stunned when students unveiled placards with the words: "We are hungry. Are you hungry, Prof?"

Moyo stammered with no satisfactory answers and tried to tell the students that "he was also hungry" and that the food shortages were affecting everyone in Zimbabwe.

His answer was not well received by the students who booed at him. He was only saved from further humiliation by the intervention of the university's Acting Vice Chancellor, Peter Gwatidzo, who threatened to expel the students for not according proper respect to Moyo.

As expected, Moyo then took the opportunity to blast Britain and the US for allegedly causing Zimbabwe's economic collapse. Moyo has been visiting Gweru in a bid to open a radio station for New Ziana and also to resuscitate the Midlands ZBC Newsnet desk, which had ceased to operate.

ZBC Newsnet Midlands bureau chief Zvikomborero Sibanda was called to Harare after the camera for the province broke down three months ago.

Moyo was in Gweru with his own entourage of State media personnel who follow him to report on his every move.