Idiot of the Week – George Charamba
June 14, 2010 
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Idiot of the Week - George Charamba
There’s an old expression that says, “The only things certain in life are death and taxes.” Well that is not entirely true.
Now there’s a new kid on the block…and it comes in the form of George Charamba aka Nathaniel Manheru. George is the Press Secretary in the President’s office and Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information in the Zimbabwean Govt. but he is better known as Mugabe’s voice. No man out there has got verbal diarrhea that can match that of George, he spews forth incoherent babble from the bowels of the voicebox and has the inablility to shut-up. It is guaranteed that every time this man opens his mouth his words destabilizes the already shakey coalition government of Zimbabwe.
If he is not doing this at press conferences he lets you know through his Herald column under the pseudonym ‘Nathaniel Manheru’. His intense animosity for the MDC is well known and he doesnt hide it. This week Charamba attacked the PM on the signing of BIPPA in South Korea, he accuses the PM Tsvangirai of having no authority signing the agreement on behalf of Zimbabwe without having Mugabe’s permission or going through the “proper” channels, Tsvangirai was merely promoting invetor relations between the two countries, thats not bad is it? Charmba’s boss flouts the constitution on a regular, now that the PM has made a decision without Mugabe’s blessing its cause for concern. In his article Charamba a.k.a. Nathaniel Manheru went on to accuse Tsvangirai of promoting MDC-T on official Government business and questions his competency as Prime Minister.
The Prime Minister has now accused Charamba of undermining the office (Section 33) the same crime that has landed most MDC leaders in big trouble recently, but we all know Charamba is untouchable. We have been here before, back in November 2009 MDC-T demanded that Charamba be removed from his post as he used the national newspapers and ZBC news to propagate hatred for the opposition.
Charamba can have all the titles and pseudonyms under the sun, one that suits him best is Puppet Secretary in the President’s office, as he regurgitates in public what the President says in private. I have a feeling Mad Man Charamba will be a regular on Idiot-of the Week.
Some of Charambaisms
“Mugabe is as popular now is he was back in April 1980″
“Mugabe as an angry mad man has every option to do what he likes on earth”
“‘Zanu pf can form own government with or without MDC!’”
“West could go hang a thousand times”
“‘We can not print Tsvangirai’s passport because of sanctions!’”
there are 2 possible reasons that the writer of the above article describes charamba/manheru's writings as 'incoherant'. 1. – his personnal political ideology does not allow him to stomach some of the truiths of the political landscape in zim that charamba brings to the fore so eloquently and from such an informed position., or, 2. the writer of the article falls short of the above average intellect tha is required to understand the writings of charamba. some refer to this as the 'mad rapper' syndrome! shame.
Hi Rob, Thank you for vising and sharing your thoughts. I will gladly accerpt the title of the "The Mad Rapper" for if there were 8 million people who felt the way I do about our situation this blog would not exist. You say Charamba is in such an informed position which I do not disagree with, Charamba is informed he is Mugabe's mouth piece but I ask who cares anymore what Mugabe or ZANU have got say are so blind that you have not noticed where Zimbabwe was in recent years. A monkey can understand Charamba's writings he rambles on about the opposition never ruling Zimbabwe and his love for Mugabe. If this were a true democratic country idiots like Charamba would engage their brains before putting pen to paper.