Dear Editor,N the recent past, Director and Spokesperson at the Ministry of Information and Media, Thabo Kawana, earned a lot of media attention – not for good reasons, but notoriety.He is reported to have imposed himself on talk show programmes featuring government opponents.Just when he was appointed, I shared some public concerns. I want to reaffirm my original position in this post.I felt then and still do now that Mr Kawana really worked hard as propaganda chief at UPND Alliance secretariat.He deserved a job but not where President Hakainde Hichilema has placed him because he was likely to underperform.He was simply up against many factors including institutional and personality factors which would make him fail. Two of these relate to the job description as director of information (I doubt about media) and other is spokesmanship.As director of the information, like many critics, I have little to say because I do know his CV and whether […]
Thabo Kawana must be redeployed into UPND Alliance secretariat
