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Media
Distortions
National
Association of Non Governmental Organisations (NANGO)
October 18, 2002
The National
Association of Non Governmental Organizations (NANGO) would like
to dissociate itself from the ZTV News hour report of 17th
October 2002 at 800 pm which said:
"NANGO
admits that a lot of NGOs are operating outside their parameters"
NANGO would
like to maintain the position that it expressed to ZTV in a telephone
conversation and this position being:
"It would
be difficult for NANGO to comment on the question of NGOs that
would be operating outside their mandates as there are many NGOs
in Zimbabwe and it is impossible for NANGO to know what each NGO
is doing"
NANGO believes
that the report given by ZTV is a deliberate effort to divide the
NGO sector through biased reporting especially by the state owned
media given that NANGO is facilitating processes leading to the
development of self-regulatory mechanisms and also the drafting
of an alternative NGO Legislation.
There is therefore
no doubt that the spirited media reports would want to undermine
the above processes that NANGO had proactively initiated in the
last few months at the request of its members. The purpose of the
code of ethics as perceived by NGOs was clearly explained during
the official launch of the drafting process, during the NGO EXPO.
We would therefore
want to appeal to member organisations to be cognizant of the media
distortions that are being made as a strategy of discouraging the
attempts by NANGO to engage government in dialogue over the new
law.
Jonah Mudehwe
Executive
Director
Visit the NANGO
fact
sheet
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