Who’s your Zimbodian?

The Times
Apr 26, 2008

It’s a shame that the entire South African media seems to think that the challenge for Zimbabwe is how to remove Robert Mugabe and replace him with Morgan Tsvangirai.

While Bob is portrayed as a villain, no attempt is made to assess whether Tsvangirai is “fit to govern”. What happened to fair reporting?

And is it out of disrespect or xenophobia that Hogarth calls us Zimbodians? And who’s the Zimbodian? Is it the black Zimbabwean? Let me guess: Zimbabwe plus Cambodia equals Zimbodia.

It’s enough that we have to put up with violent xenophobic attacks in South Africa, but a slur in a respectable paper like the Sunday Times is disgusting, to say the least.