Job Sikhala, the Chairman and Facilitator of the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG), and Jacob Ngarivhume, the president of Transform Zimbabwe (TZ), have issued a joint statement strongly condemning a story published on July 31 in a state-controlled daily newspaper.
The article, titled “Government to Take Firm Action Against Instigators of Violence,” has been described by the two leaders as “rubbish.”
In their statement, Sikhala and Ngarivhume have demanded a retraction of the story, which they claim is a fabrication. Reads the statement:
We the undersigned leaders of Transform Zimbabwe (TZ) political party and the Chairman and Facilitator of the National Democratic Working Group (NDWG) a broad-based civic movement demand an apology and withdrawal of the false story published by the Herald of today, Wednesday the 31st of July 2024 to the effect that we have been sponsored by Oppenheimer funded Brenthurst Foundation and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to lead demonstrations against the illegitimate Zanupf regime in Harare.
The story imputed that the National Democratic Working Group and Transform Zimbabwe in association with the Zimbabwe National Students Union (ZINASU), are organising demonstrations to destabilise Zimbabwe during the SADC Summit when Zimbabwe will assume the chairmanship.
The first thing we realised is that there are no sources that the Herald got the rubbish story from, except paranoid and frightened looters sitting at the Munhumutapa Building. It’s all the hallucinations they pass out as authentic news.
Their sources are illusionary and desperate failures who are seeking to cover their intentions and desperation to arrest us and our members.
We know what the regime does when it wants to arrest its opponents. They plant their lies in the Herald and run with it as a fact and hype nonsense to get their opponents arrested.
We challenge them to produce the evidence of their lies, failure of which we shall take drastic legal action to rectify these lies. We are not organizations of empty threats. We follow every word we say with legal action.
If we want to lead a demonstration within the confines and permissible parameters of our constitution, we won’t hide about it. We will openly pronounce it. The Herald story is some load of illusions and paranoia.
We have instructed our lawyers to demand that the Herald retracts its lies or we seek redress in the courts of law.
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