IWRPR, I hope now you will use your real names. I have never trusted a journalist with a mask. I don't care even if they come from the so-called first world. Using Pseudonym names in journalism is cheating and dishonest.

As usual this British NGO, continue to play this idiot game. I think Zimbabweans are smart enough to know that a journalist with a mask is like a terrorist!! Maybe IWPR is truely a terrorist organisation trying to preserve anglo interests. It is a shame that allafrica .com accepts this kind of rubbish! I prefer the Herald newspaper than a journalist writing under a pseudonym name.

Considering the article is mainly factual, I dont see the problem with it being written by a pseudonm. Are you saying that the largest cabinet since 1980 wont be a financial burden on a country thats already struggling financially?

While I'm sure there are those journalists who just love having to work clandestinely and under a pseudonym because they think its "romantic", the majority of western journos have been forced to do their job under a pseudonym to avoid arrest, expulsion or imprisonment (or worse) under Zimbabwe's very tight media laws. A free media is internationally recognised as being a hallmark of an open, democratic society and I too look forward to when genuine journalists from anywhere in the world would be able to travel the length and breadth of this beautiful country under their own name. I can't wait until the news reports coming out of this land are filled more with stories of peace, hope, reconstruction, reconciliation and which tell the world about the sheer beauty of this jewel of Africa and her fantastic people.

Am annoyed that I read this Business Day article after posting my comment: http://allafrica.com/stories/200809170295.html

One thing a good journalist needs to do is present all facts so that the reader can make an informed opinion. With the cabinet being reduced from 64 ministers to 56 (by my count), although the wage bill will still be big for a country with such pressing financial worries, it actually should be somewhat less expensive that the outgoing cabinet, and that is to be welcomed. Also, at what price peace & progress? A big executive that actually achieves what is needed to turn Zimbabwe around is a expense well worth paying. I sincerely hope it proves to be worth it.

African32, the question to you is: Do you support the use of pseudoynm names by IWPR? Given the controversy that this article has already shown, is it not an example of why journalists with agendas refuse to identify themselves in order to promote their ideas! By the way such behaviour is a very imperial and undemocractic way of debating issues in an open forum. IWPR is a British institution that has daily advocated a violate removal of Robert Mugabe..That is why they are using pseudonym names, like a real "terrorist"

For all the effort of hiding the real name of this journalist turned terrorist, what is it they have written that we have not heard about or have suspected! What about African journalists in Africa who have gone to jail for practising ethical journalism? Only to have idiots from IWPR steal their ideas and use a mask to write the article? what kind of free society are they promoting or are they real trying to promote neo-colonialism? I question the motives of these terrorists!