A 63-YEAR-old announcer for Zimbabwe’s state radio has been sacked after slipping momentarily back into the past. Veteran broadcaster Tony Gaynor was last week ordered to leave the studio and not return when he announced the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s lunchtime news bulletin: ”This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. The time is one o’clock.” ”It just happened,” said Gaynor, who joined what was then the RBC in 1974 and has continued to work for the station since it became ZBC in 1980. ”I was not even conscious that I said it,” he said. Information Minister Chen Chimutengwende was enraged. ”It was right he was fired. How could he say this 20 years after independence? It means his heart is still in Rhodesia,” he declared. Gaynor has not yet received a response to a written apology.