Staff Reporter
The ruling ZANU PF has dismissed as fake and grossly malicious a story recently published by Newsday which insinuated that the Party had fulfilled only two percent of its 2018 electoral promises.
In a statement yesterday, ZANU PF National Spokesperson, Cde Simon Khaya Moyo, said the fake news was coming at a time the country was receiving positive reviews from global institutions such as IMF.
“The Revolutionary Party ZANU PF has taken note of a leading story in today’s (yesterday) Newsday paper which belongs to AMH, quoting a non-existent, fame seeking outfit identified as Sivio which claims that ZANU PF has achieved only 2 percent of the Party’s promises as provided in the 2018 People’s manifesto.
“This fake news story is coming at a time when the ZANU PF Government is woking tirelessly with the people under the President’s mantra, ‘No one Must Be Left Behind’ has been commended even by usually unfriendly global institutions such as the IMF which has projected that Zimbabwe’s economic turnaround is indeed on course,” said Cde Moyo.
Cde Moyo said that facts and statistics on the ground attested to the fact that Zimbabwe had achieved food security following a successful season headlined by the Pfumvudza farming programme and the Presidential Inputs Support Scheme. He added that the construction of dams countrywide and erection of irrigation structures to support agriculture and defy climate change were some of the New Dispensation’s achievement that were there for everyone to see.
The ZANU PF spokesperson further said a raft of macro and micro economic reforms undertaken by Government had caused the local currency to remain stable against the US dollar with the Foreign Currency Auction System playing a major role in restoring sanity in the foreign exchange market, resulting in reduced inflation.
On the political front, Cde Moyo mentioned that the ZANU PF-led Government had implemented some political reforms such as the repealing of AIPPA and POSA and has opened the democratic space that has caused the peaceful co-existence and tolerance of divergent views.
Cde Moyo said the Party had also opened up to all media despite some of them being traditionally hostile and known for doing the bidding for opposition parties. He further challenged the Newsday and some fame seeking news outfits to learn to separate fact from fiction and report responsibly instead of running amok driven by vendetta journalism and a spirit of criticism.
He added that fake news had no place in a civilized newsroom and said the Party rejected fake news that sought to criminalize the country’s progress and achievements.
