adminMukachana Hanyani
READING stories from the private media last week and not last week only, but every time and again, could not help one to appreciate what the private media stands for in the country.
Their line of thinking is that of the country in crisis and that any violence that is propagated by the so-called human rights defenders and their surrogates is necessary in the country to an extent of buttressing it.
The private media has now become the spokesperson of the opposition groups as well as the so called rights groups.
Last week saw a mockery and abuse of the freedom of expression which is enshrined in the new constitution by the private media and its sponsors when they connived to come up with the following stories headlined like this: Opposition condemns police brutality against demonstrators-Newsday, January 7, 2016, Rights groups slam government over demos-Daily News, January 7, 2016, Is Zanu-PF turning into a de facto terrorist organisation?- Newsday, January 7, 2016, and finally, Zim political tension rises-Daily News, January 7, 2016.
While it is their democratic right to come up with such stories for the benefit of their readers, but it is wrong to get a national paper to advocate for violence to go ahead unchecked in the country. Why is it that the so-called opposition groups found time to blame the police when it was doing its national duty of bringing peace in the country?
Why is it that the same opposition groups failed to see that violence is counterproductive if they were not part and parcel of such a demonic act. Actually the opposition groups have no right to blame the police when the force is bringing sanity in the country.
What the police did last week in dealing with illegal demonstrations was good and any sane Zimbabwean cannot come out blaming the police for bringing sanity in the country.
In fact, those demonstrators were hooligans who wanted to tarnish the image of the rural teachers and the police was right to deal with them as a way of bringing peace in the country.
People cannot be hoodwinked into believing that the demonstrators were the rural teachers who had travelled all their ways from their centres only to come and demonstrate in Harare during schools holiday.
The timing of the demonstrators showed that it was the members of the opposition groups and their sympathisers who wanted to cause confusion in the country in the name of the rural teachers, hence the intervention of the police was necessary.
One also wonders what type of the so-called rights groups in the country who would boost of supporting illegal activities to go unchecked when everyone is for peace in the country. What is important was that the so-called right groups could have advised illegal demonstrators to stop being confrontational with the peace loving police in the country.
The so-called rights groups are quite aware that the constitution allows demonstrations to go ahead once the police have cleared such a move. But surprisingly the so-called rural teachers wanted to by-pass such an important requirement as a way of inviting public sympathy.
So if any group whatever its position is like in the country decides to go against what the constitution stands for, the police cannot fold their hands and just keep quiet while the constitution is being violated.
It is clear to everyone that the police has a duty to deal with unruly behaviours in the country and the so-called rural teachers demonstrators who staged an illegal demonstrations in Harare last week got what they deserved, hence, the so-called right groups had no right to blame Government and police over such issues.
For that reason, the private media should guard against come up with such stories which have no moral understanding in the country. They should not keep on writing stories that are counterproductive and only causing confusion in the country.
Even the claim by the same private media questioning the integrity of Zanu-PF in the country in handling violence issues and wanting to tell their readers that Zanu-PF is a de facto terrorist organisation boggles the mind.
The ruling party cannot be said to be a de facto terrorist organisation when it is not interfering with the police in its duties of dealing with perpetrators of violence in the country. Actually the opposition political parties who support violence in the country are the de facto terrorist organisations because they are good at advocating for violence to take place in the country.
It is also the opposition who always plan and come up with illegal demonstrations so that they would later claim that Zimbabwe is in crisis. In fact, the opposition groups celebrate any hardships that befall the people in the country as they always see that as an opportunity to harvest more supporters as a result of such a calamity.
Any commotion and suffering in the country by people gives the opposition groups the opportunity to get more support from the electorate as any chaotic situation in the country is blame on the ruling party, Zanu-PF.
Herald Political Editor, Tichaona Zindoga, writing in his opinion piece in The Herald of January 12, 2016 in an article titled: MDC-T: Hoping for bumper harvest from drought, sums it all when he says: “It is a matter of record that the opposition in Zimbabwe thrives on the suffering of the people and that is why the MDC invited sanctions against the country which caused untold hardships, death and disease that nearly ended up in a humanitarian disaster in 2007-8”.
So it is an open secret that the opposition and the so called rights groups do not see anything good from government in general and the ruling party in particular but only enjoy a lot when the people are suffering. They are now using the private media to create a scenario which is like the country is in crisis and chaos as a way of inviting support on their side.
Actually, it is the opposition and those so-called rights groups that incite innocent and unemployed youths to carry out illegal demonstrations in the country as top create violence so that they get something to say when the police act against such illegality.
For that reason Zimbabweans should not be misled by the fly-by-night politicians who have no strong tape root that can withstand the political turbulent in the country, but can be easily swept away like due once the sun rises. So people should realise that together, Zimbabweans can overcome all problems that the country is facing and divided we can fall.
Online Reporter