IN their few and scattered moments of excitement, MDC supporters normally chant the classic "Zanu Yaora baba", which foreign journalists incorrectly translate as Zanu PF is rotten.
The proper translation is that Zanu PF is decayed. What the MDC song misses is the fact that the state itself is decomposing or rather is in the last and highest form of decomposition.
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