adminbecause of a denial of service (DoS) attack, an attack in which servers are flooded by a huge volume of traffic. The volume of the traffic slows down the servers and, in the worst cases, effectively shuts down the website. Just before the attack, a group calling themselves Anonymous Africa, with the Twitter handle @Zim4thewin, sent out this tweet: “Please note everyone. Today #IOL will be attacked for ignoring the genocide against the Ndebele people and for supporting a dictator.”
Minutes later they wrote: “@IOL Tick tock 3 minutes left until the African spring tidal wave hits your corrupt mouthpiece.” The tweets then counted down to 11am, when they wrote: “@iol You are now tango down! for crimes against humanity!”
Then came the taunt: “IOL bad boys bad boys what you ganna do, what you ganna do when they come for you,” quoting the Inner Circle song.
“Publishing these does not imply that we agree, or disagree, with those views. We pride ourselves on allowing and publishing a multiplicity of views. It is unfortunate that anyone could use this simple principle of media as an excuse for an attack on us.”
Regional and international media have come alive to President Mugabe’s liberation credentials and his progressive pro-people policies among them the land reform programme, and indigenisation and economic empowerment policies that have all borne tangible fruits on the ground.
Conversely, MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has been periodically bashed over his bad politics, sex scandals and handling of public finances. Pundits are agree that President Mugabe and Zanu-PF’s support is on the ascendancy a development captured by several recent surveys that all pointed to a Zanu-PF victory in the harmonised elections. — IOL-HR.
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