Mawarire Defends Jah Prazyah, Chides Chin’ono

Opposition National Patriotic Front (NPF) party spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has come out in defence of musician Jah Prayzah following his verbal spat with investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on Twitter yesterday.

Chin’ono had challenged Jah Prayzah, who is considered to be the poster boy of Zimbabwe’s authoritarian government through his music, to be “on the side of the people” by denouncing the government’s excesses as was done by the late national hero Oliver Mtukudzi and United States-based Chimurenga maestro Thomas Mapfumo.

However, Mawarire argued that Jah Prayzah has a right to decide who to associate with and castigated some people’s tendency to try to make others think as they do or see things from their own perspective, saying it is the hallmark of intolerance.  Pindula