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Ncube
warns NGOs against meddling in domestic politics
The Herald (Zimbabwe)
June
06, 2006
http://www1.herald.co.zw/inside.aspx?sectid=4046&cat=1&livedate=6/6/2006
THE Government has warned non-governmental organisations against
meddling in politics.
The Deputy Minister of Public Service, Labour and Social Welfare,
Cde Abedinico Ncube said the Government considers it a serious security
concern when NGOs allow themselves to be used as conduits for undemocratic
processes.
"I would like
to urge the NGO fraternity to desist from using their abundant resources
to sponsor partisan political interests.
"In fact, the
Government takes it as a serious security concern when NGO’s allow
themselves to be used as conduits for undemocratic processes.
" Cde Ncube
was speaking at the National
Association of Non-Governmental Organisation annual conference
in Harare last week.
"We are therefore
concerned when some NGOs become the conduits for the transfer of
funds targeted at pursuing undemocratic processes that have dominated
the infamous so-called ‘regime change’ agenda.
"Surely it
is a matter of common sense that destabilising governments cannot
be considered a necessary condition for development," he said.
The deputy minister
said one only had to look at the plethora of articles on the Internet
by a network of NGOs calling themselves the Crisis
Coalition which were dedicated to nothing else but stirring
a national crisis.
"Some of us
might have thought that the negative portrayal of the country by
NGOs in the international media is confined to the vilification
of our political processes alone.
"The latest
targeting of the Tonga culture as a subject of misrepresentation
by an NGO soliciting for donor funds on the Internet, however, indicates
how low some members of the NGO fraternity have stooped in their
quest for funding."
The Government,
however, recognised that the majority of NGOs recognised and appreciated
the importance of working in line with the national agenda in the
fight against HIV and Aids.
Cde Ncube said
there was need for the Government and NGOs to pool their resources
together in pursuing national development.
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