Zimbabwe: Muckraker - Joking With the Ancestral Spirits

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BY far the funniest story to appear in the media last week was the formation of a cabinet taskforce to investigate a report of diesel oozing from a rock in Chinhoyi.

The Zanu PF politburo, we were told, had set up a taskforce comprising three cabinet ministers following a report by a committee led by Deputy Police Commissioner Godwin Matanga that the liquid oozing out of rocks near the Chinhoyi Caves was "pure diesel". Vehicles had responded well to the fuel, we were told.

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