The blame game

Yesterday Zimbabwe celebrated 27 years of independence and what an occasion this presented to President Robert Mugabe to lash out at his enemies, imaginary or not. He attributed the countries economic woes to unbridled greed amongst business persons, saboteurs, misguided opposition elements, British colonialists ..... he blamed everyone. Funny enough he took none of the blame. It really baffles me how this blame game is played!

Minister warns web developers, ISP's

There is an article in the Nation newspaper today suggesting that government wants to censor the internet in Malawi although Govt has denied it. The article goes on further to say forums like Nyasanet, Malawi Talk and Nyasa Times are the main target of this censorship and that Govt wants to send specialists for training to implement the censorship. Information minister has denied all this but went on the caution web developers and internet service providers to watch what they publish.

Could someone kindly inform the honourable information minster that web developers and ISP's are not responsible for a web sites content.

Potency

Serious Liquid Energy! so they say

Send SMS's for FREE!!

Thats the message we shall soon be receiving from the cellphone providers over here. Sending an sms used to cost around 12 cents or 12 units as they like to call it these days. Then one provider went down to 8 units? I think. Then the other followed and went down to 7. Then the other went down to 2 units. The other has now come down to 5 units. Next week I predict (and am taking bets) that the 2 units one will allow us to send sms's for free.

Meanwhile those of us who use our phones properly i.e. make phone calls, anxiously await the day they shall reduce calling rates!