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Wheels off at The Herald
Movement for Democratic Change
February 09, 2011

The Herald - the sister paper to The People's Voice, a Zanu PF mouth-piece - has excelled in peddling lies and falsehoods in a bid to smear the character of the MDC and its leader, President Morgan Tsvangirai.

In a report headlined: EU set to renew illegal sanctions regime published today, the newspaper claims President Tsvangirai addressed Western diplomats at Harvest House on Monday at which he allegedly implored on them to extend the targeted restrictive measure against Zimbabwe ahead of elections later this year.

For the record, President Tsvangirai has been out of Harare on business elsewhere since the end of last week as such he could never have addressed the said meeting. This can easily be verified through the journalists and other sources who attended a Press conference at the same venue on Monday afternoon on the disturbances caused by Zanu PF hooligans at the Gulf Shopping Complex in Harare.

The Herald, according to our tradition, was invited to this Press conference, and one Tendai Mugabe from The Herald appears on the party's attendance register as having been part of that Press conference.

Surprisingly, The Herald chose to create their fiction away from facts to suit their own premeditated propaganda. Quoting unnamed sources, The Herald report shamelessly tries to suck in President Tsvangirai into Zanu PF's poor record of governance, tyranny and lawlessness which has attracted the ire of players from other parties in the world. Fortunately, the lies deepen the people's disdain for The Herald and Zanu PF over their persistent promotion of hate and an extreme dislike for Zimbabweans.

The Prime Minister's spokesperson, Mr Luke Tamborinyoka has written to The Herald lodging an official complaint over the fictitious address by Prime Minister Tsvangirai to the diplomats. The people's Party of Excellence, the MDC reiterates its oft-stated position that it has nothing to do with the relations between Zanu PF and any other party or parties.

Zimbabweans want real change, and real change is built on the foundation of truth and facts.

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