Tuesday, October 19, 2010

BREAKING. Big Brother All Stars controversy as Zimbabwe government demands recordings after contestant's narrow loss.

Cobus Bodenstein/M-Net

Zimbabwe is not happy with M-Net's Big Brother All Stars that concluded Sunday night with Uti Nwachukwu as the winner, with the office Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe demanding recordings of the show, according to AP.

According to AP, officials of M-Net Africa says that Robert Mugabe's office has ''demanded recordings of the show'' in which the Zimbabwean contestant Munya Chidzonga narrowly lost.

In Zimbabwe, not a country known for free nor fair national elections, Robert Mugabe's nephew Phillip Chiyangwa has now started a campaign, saying that Munya Chidzinga has been ''cheated'', according to London's The Telegraph. Phillip Chiyangwa called the vote - in which Uti Nwachukwu and Munya Chidzonga each got seven votes but in which Uti Nwachukwu got the ''Rest of Africa'' vote giving him the win - not ''free and fair''.

I have reached out to M-Net as well as MultiChoice Africa for comment.