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One to Watch for this week is Archbishop Pius Ncube, a man who has every right to fear for his life as he settles back into life as Zimbabwe’s most outspoken religious leader.

After a high-profile sojourn in Australia as a guest of Prime Minister John Howard, the Archbishop can expect a chilly, if not overtly brutal reception when he reaches Harare.
He used his time in Australia to urge the nation’s cricketers to boycott their upcoming tour of Zimbabwe, sentiments which won’t make him any more popular at home than he was before he left. The SMH reports that Mugabe has labelled him a “mad, inveterate liar” in the past, and his time in Australia has seen him in league with the “Anglo-Saxon unholy alliance against Zimbabwe”.

He’ll return to a country where electricity usage is reduced to four hours a day for the majority of people, where inflation runs at 2000 per cent, where malnutrition and abject poverty is the norm, where a quarter of the population is HIV positive and the average life expectancy is just 34 years, and where pushing for political or press freedom is akin to signing your own death warrant.

The Archbishop is luck to have God on his side, he’ll need all the help he can get standing up agaist the demonic Robert Mugabe.

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