By Alice Majola| Of all the Zanu politicians, no one is more annoying and toxic than Nick Mangwana. This guy is on twitter 24 hours of the day, posting lie after lie defending Zanu like his life depends on it.

He is the face of Zanu’s propaganda machine. If Zanu is like the Nazi’s then Nick is the regime’s Joseph Goebbels. If Mnangagwa is the devil then Nick is the devil’s advocate. Terrible things are being done by Zanu and Nick is constantly saying these things are good and when he acknowledges that they are bad things happening he says it’s not the fault of Zanu. He goes out of his way to present a distorted view of an oppressive government that is causing huge suffering in millions of Zimbabweans – the rotten economy, fake currency, non existent public services, people dying from preventable diseases because of a collapsed health system, harassment of the opposition, political abductions, shooting of protestors, rigging of elections, fuel queues as long as the Wall of China. Despite all these things happening, Nick will come out defending Zanu and will blame the problems on someone else. He really is a warped person.

It really irks me how people tolerate this guy and try to debate him on social media. Trying to reason with Nick is like trying to give therapy to a fly to stop it from eating excrement.  If people really want to make a difference regarding Nick, they need to petition the western governments to put his name on the sanctions list. He has been getting away with it for far too long. Propaganda is a critical part of an oppressive government and Nick is right at the centre of it in the case of Zimbabwe. He should face travel bans just like the Zanu killers he advocates for.

Before I end this, let me say this: Nick needs to be reminded that the last Zanu gobshite who discharged verbal diarrhoea at this rate was non other than Jonathan Moyo who is probably now fluent in Kikuyu for self preservation purposes. Things will fall apart for him one day.