Standing Up to Zimbabwe's President on Facebook

A disaffected ZANU-PF insider leaking details of fraud and inside information from an anonymous Facebook page has become an online sensation. But will it change anything?

On 31 July, the 89-year-old Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, will seek another term in a rematch of the contentious 2008 election with challenger Morgan Tsvangirai.

But now, 33 years after Mugabe first took office, the icon of the African independence era is being hounded by a creation of the Internet age.

In March, a self-proclaimed disaffected insider of the ruling ZANU-PF party created the Facebook page of "Baba Jukwa". With the disarming profile picture of a cartoon old man, Baba Jukwa traffics in political napalm, spilling damaging details of high-level party meetings, allegations of voter fraud, and embarrassing gossip - all replete with private phone numbers for citizens to harass the officials in question.