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Welshman Ncube blasts diaspora journalists
14 Nov 2011 at 14:12hrs | Views
The leader of the smaller faction of MDC, Welshman Ncube said some journalists who ran away from the country are only writing stories praising Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai as if he is God.
Addressing 500 of his supporters at Nketa Hall in Nketa high density suburb on Sunday, Ncube said the smaller MDC was not formed to support Tsvangirai.
"Some journalists especially those from the Daily News Harvest House take Tsvangirai as a God; they do not want to write about bad things he is doing.
"Recently he wrote a book full of lies, but they do not want to talk about it."
Some of these journalists ran away from this country and are now broadcasting from Washington but they behave the same as ZBC.
Again you can go on and cartoon us as many times as you want but we do not care," said Ncube.
Tsvangirai recently published his book "At the Deep End" and in one of the revelations claimed that the MDC split was caused by former South African President Thabo Mbeki in collaboration with Ncube.
Ncube said he is not looking for a coalition partner in the Tsvangirai-led MDC saying his party will remain an independent entity.
"You hear journalists writing that what I said undermines the possibility of a coalition. Please understand that Tsvangirai and his party are not our allies just as much Zanu PF is not our ally.
"We are not looking for allies but we are looking for the support of the people of Zimbabwe," he said.
He challenged Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe for a live debate on television on party policies just before next elections saying that he will show them how brilliant he and his party are.
Tsvangirai and Ncube launched the united MDC together in 1999 with the former becoming the president while the latter became the secretary-general of the party.
Following its formation, the MDC had proved to be the most serious challenger to Mugabe's uninterrupted rule since independence in 1980.
However, there was an acrimonious split in 2005 over strategy and participation in senate elections.
Addressing 500 of his supporters at Nketa Hall in Nketa high density suburb on Sunday, Ncube said the smaller MDC was not formed to support Tsvangirai.
"Some journalists especially those from the Daily News Harvest House take Tsvangirai as a God; they do not want to write about bad things he is doing.
"Recently he wrote a book full of lies, but they do not want to talk about it."
Some of these journalists ran away from this country and are now broadcasting from Washington but they behave the same as ZBC.
Again you can go on and cartoon us as many times as you want but we do not care," said Ncube.
Tsvangirai recently published his book "At the Deep End" and in one of the revelations claimed that the MDC split was caused by former South African President Thabo Mbeki in collaboration with Ncube.
"You hear journalists writing that what I said undermines the possibility of a coalition. Please understand that Tsvangirai and his party are not our allies just as much Zanu PF is not our ally.
"We are not looking for allies but we are looking for the support of the people of Zimbabwe," he said.
He challenged Tsvangirai and President Robert Mugabe for a live debate on television on party policies just before next elections saying that he will show them how brilliant he and his party are.
Tsvangirai and Ncube launched the united MDC together in 1999 with the former becoming the president while the latter became the secretary-general of the party.
Following its formation, the MDC had proved to be the most serious challenger to Mugabe's uninterrupted rule since independence in 1980.
However, there was an acrimonious split in 2005 over strategy and participation in senate elections.
Source - Daily News
