(HERALD) Western media should stop lying about talks

Western media should stop lying about talks

EDITOR — I read with amazement in some publications last week that the talks between Zanu-PF and the two MDC formations had collapsed after the parties reached a deadlock.

Over the years, I have come to realise that there are some sections of the media that only want to report negative things about Zimbabwe.

So I waited for a truer picture of what was happening to emerge and, sure enough, your paper correctly reported that there was no deadlock and that the negotiators were only coming home to brief their principals on progress made so far.

It is with this in mind that I would like to thank you for keeping the nation and the world at large well-informed about what is happening on our political scene.

I can no longer trust some newspapers and websites, especially those from the West, because they lie about us and try to derail our efforts.

I now understand why the Government has in place laws regulating how the media operate because there are many vultures out there who would like to destroy our country.

While I believe that there should be freedom of the media, I urge the authorities to ensure that there is a modicum of regulation so that liars cannot have the wherewithal to mislead the nation at such a sensitive time in our political development.

It is in the country’s best interests to put in place adequate measures so that those people resident in Zimbabwe who sabotage our progress by giving out false information and working in cahoots with the liars in the Western media are dealt with.

Why should the nation be held to ransom by a bunch of poorly trained journalists who want to make a quick, dishonest dollar?

Barnabas Murefu.

Borrowdale,

Harare.