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Jonathan Moyo lashes out over Grace Mugabe
15 Oct 2014 at 06:18hrs | Views
Professor Jonathan Moyo, the Minister for Information, Media and Broadcasting Services has blasted three newspapers for claiming that First Lady Grace Mugabe "called for the ouster of Vice President Joice Mujuru" at her rally in Gwanda on Monday.
Prof Moyo, speaking to reporters in Lupane yesterday where the First Lady addressed her seventh rally on her "Meet the People Tour", said the reports in the privately-owned NewsDay and Daily News and SouthernEye were "infertile imagination of their creators".
"It appears, unless if one is confronted by concrete evidence, that this was the work of people in Harare, in these newspapers, who were not at Pelandaba Stadium in Gwanda yesterday because Dr Mugabe never said anything of the sort," said Prof Moyo.
He said the First Lady was addressing the qualities that a Vice President should have, and not an individual.
He explained: "She (First Lady) mentioned that for the Vice President and Second Secretary [of Zanu-PF] drawn from the former Zapu there're now five aspiring candidates. Surely we need some criteria to guide us.
"Do we choose someone who will just sit there and do nothing and piggyback on the President [Cde Robert Mugabe]? Or we choose someone who has the qualities like Dr Nkomo, like Cde Muzenda, like Cde Msika had, which was to assist the President discharge his mandate? This is what she was talking about."
"This is a sign that there're some among us who would like to kick up some dust, do-up confusion, mischief and so forth," he said.
"Unfortunately for them, the national broadcaster is rebroadcasting these addresses in full for the people to hear the message without any contamination, and they don't need any newspaper to tell them what she said.
"They'll hear for themselves, and for this we must all be grateful for ZBC because apart from just getting the message directly, those who're trying to distort, misrepresent and so forth are going to be left with egg on their faces because their attempts will be exposed for what they are – mischief and imaginations that at the end of the day are not creative, are not meaningful and will be rejected by the people."
Prof Moyo, speaking to reporters in Lupane yesterday where the First Lady addressed her seventh rally on her "Meet the People Tour", said the reports in the privately-owned NewsDay and Daily News and SouthernEye were "infertile imagination of their creators".
"It appears, unless if one is confronted by concrete evidence, that this was the work of people in Harare, in these newspapers, who were not at Pelandaba Stadium in Gwanda yesterday because Dr Mugabe never said anything of the sort," said Prof Moyo.
He said the First Lady was addressing the qualities that a Vice President should have, and not an individual.
He explained: "She (First Lady) mentioned that for the Vice President and Second Secretary [of Zanu-PF] drawn from the former Zapu there're now five aspiring candidates. Surely we need some criteria to guide us.
"Do we choose someone who will just sit there and do nothing and piggyback on the President [Cde Robert Mugabe]? Or we choose someone who has the qualities like Dr Nkomo, like Cde Muzenda, like Cde Msika had, which was to assist the President discharge his mandate? This is what she was talking about."
"This is a sign that there're some among us who would like to kick up some dust, do-up confusion, mischief and so forth," he said.
"Unfortunately for them, the national broadcaster is rebroadcasting these addresses in full for the people to hear the message without any contamination, and they don't need any newspaper to tell them what she said.
"They'll hear for themselves, and for this we must all be grateful for ZBC because apart from just getting the message directly, those who're trying to distort, misrepresent and so forth are going to be left with egg on their faces because their attempts will be exposed for what they are – mischief and imaginations that at the end of the day are not creative, are not meaningful and will be rejected by the people."
Source - Chronicle
