WHY IS THE FXI SILENT ON ZIM ?

Dear Jane Duncan and Na'eem Jeenah,

I note that The FXI has remained silent with regard to President Mbeki's refusal at SADC to condemn abuses of freedom of expression in Zimbabwe. Surely you should have spoken out?

I quote President Mbeki's latest letter on The ANC website:

"On Monday, August 20, the Business Day newspaper published a wholly fabricated story alleging that the SADC leaders were divided over this report, describing a discussion at the Summit Meeting that never took place. This is consistent with an unethical practice in sections of our media in terms of which they manufacture news and information and communicate complete fiction as the truth."

"The hostile allegation that our countries have recklessly turned their eyes away from the problems of Zimbabwe, because of the imperatives of solidarity, has always been nothing more than a product of propaganda, which all thinking persons would recognise as such."

"With regard to our own media, which seems to thrive on marketing the negative and underplaying the positive, with little regard to the objective reality that ours is a society going through a complex and exciting period of truly revolutionary change, we too must ask the question – where are the heroic journalists and scholars who will tell the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, about the unprecedented process of the rebirth of our country!"
http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/anctoday/2007/at33.htm

Do you agree with the President Mbeki's views?? If you don't, what precisely are you doing about it ?


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