I saw this film a few weeks ago in Johannesburg – see my post. Tonight and Friday night it will be screened at the London Film Festival. Tickets are sold out.

I came across this interesting blog post by a Zimbabwean journalist based in Leeds, UK. Gilbert Nyambabvu responded to Amanpour’s interview with Mugabe. “Outraged Zimbabweans rightly, if jokingly, dismissed the journalist as Aman-poor,” he says.

About land issues, he says that any ‘experienced’ and ‘intelligent’ journalist would know that trying to engage President Mugabe on the ‘land issue’ and the matter of ‘sanctions’ is a hopeless enterprise.

The President is at his most passionate and eloquent when talking about these issues; and as soon as Amanpour inexpertly raised them, the Zimbabwean leader quickly overcame his initial unease and seized control of the interview.

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