 On 2 June 2013 "People of the South" aired an interview Tambo did with the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe only two months before the 2013 Zimbabwean general election.It reportedly took Tambo three years to organise the interview with the Mugabe family.The interview generated some controversy and was criticised for being "sycophantic" by the "Mail & Guardian" newspaper, and called a "public relations exercise" for Mugabe by CapeTalk567 radio presenter Kieno Kammies.