Jane Mlambo| Prominent academic Alex Magaisa has blasted people who fell victim to state media propaganda that carried a misleading story on what former South African President Thabo Mbeki said on the ongoing dialogue in the country.

Mbeki who appeared in a South African television interview said winning an election for President Emmerson Mnangagwa was not enough adding that conditions put forward by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa were valid.

But the state owned Herald said appeared to sing from a different hymn book saying Mbeki supported Mnangagwa’s move to call for dialogue.

The Herald went on to report that Mbeki had slated Chamisa for spurning Mnangagwa’s dialogue call.

Magaisa said some people had fallen victim to state media propaganda and in the processes attacking Mbeki.

” You allowed yourselves to be victims of the propaganda machine and to be instruments of it as well. Mbeki made huge errors during his tenure but he wasn’t wrong in this particular instance. Listen to him carefully, not what state media is telling you,” said Magaisa.