The cabinet minister charged with protecting Zimbabwe against cyber attacks doesn’t use social media, it has emerged.
Source: Zim’s new cyber security minister not on social media – report | News24 2017-10-11
Patrick Chinamasa was given charge over the newly-created ministry of cyber security, threat detection and mitigation by President Robert Mugabe on Monday.
IT news website Techzim said it had phoned up the minister, and he had confirmed to them that five Facebook pages in the minister’s name weren’t in fact his.
“He assured us that NONE of them are his. Do not believe anything that his shared on those accounts,” the website said in a report.
Very few government ministers are active on social media. One exception is Jonathan Moyo, the higher education minister, who has 181 000 followers on Twitter.
Techzim said Chinamasa had confirmed to them that unlike Moyo “he is not on Twitter either. He is not on any social media, period.”
Last month when he was still finance minister Chinamasa blamed social media for sparking panic buying and shortages.
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Typical. No one in that party is worthy of any job, bloody tsotsis.
This has got nothing to do with cyber attacks…..it has everything to do with stopping the people from having a voice before and during the elections. They are s….ng themselves because they know they cannot control what people are thinking.