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THE Herald is a paper of record and we are in the business of publishing news and making it relevant for our readers. We take this duty seriously, which is why we are the market leaders in every respect.We have never, do not and will never subscribe to promoting divisions in Zanu-PF or any other political party.
We subscribe to national unity as superintended by a government elected nationally and as celebrated on National Unity Day which represents the coming together of our people for nation-building.
We have said it before, and we reiterate; we hold no brief for anyone aspiring or perspiring for the Zanu-PF leadership.
We defer to our National Flag, the national and public interest, and make no apologies for that.
We defend the President, the party he leads and the Government formed by that party, and the State institutions as well as the security organs of the State of which he is Commander-in-Chief.
We defend those as a matter of national interest, and make no apologies for that.
The defence is, however, only to the extent that the institutions are upholding the ideals of the struggle for which tens of thousands of precious lives were lost.
We defend our Flag by deploying the tools of our trade, by being fair and non-propagandistic. We do not conflict national interest with personal interest because to us the national interest is always supreme.
We do not give succour to personal ambitions of any faction in Zanu-PF, have never been an extension of any faction and have no wish to be.
It thus comes as a surprise to us that there are some senior Zanu-PF politicians who claim we attack them politically when all we do is highlight their misdeeds as given by credible sources, and on record.
We have never attacked the President, who always walks the straight and narrow. We have not attacked Zanu-PF as a collective and neither have we attacked any other person in Zanu-PF, those who feel attacked are being attacked by nothing but the truth of what will have transpired.
We do not make the news, we just report it. We do not go under cover of darkness to look for people to embarrass but when people do things in the full glare of the public eye like abducting party members to influence votes, vote buying and manipulation, as well as visiting violence on political opponents, and when the sources are credible and on record, we have a duty to inform the public.
We would have failed in our role as a watchdog of society if we choose to turn a blind eye.
There are some in Zanu-PF who didn’t want the chaos that ravaged the run-up to the Youth and Women’s League Conferences and their aftermaths exposed.
They wanted the allegations of rigging and irregularities, vote buying and manipulation swept under the carpet.
But we are not in the business of public relations. Our duty is to educate, inform and entertain our readers.
To us the national interest is supreme and our publics are our readers and advertisers.
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