We Demand Media Reforms Not Jingle Return!

The MDC Youth Assembly is riled, disgusted and nauseated by continued abuse of the public sphere by the illegitimate Emmerson Mnangagwa’s military regime to pursue its parochial agendas hiding under the public interest smokescreen.

We note with regret and disdain the recent manoeuvres by the unrepentant and unreformed Mnangagwa administration’s continued abuse of public funded media institutions.

It is overtly clear that Mnangagwa’s so called ‘New Dispensation’ has learnt everything and forgot nothing from his predecessor’s regime that literally turned a whole public broadcaster into a narrow caster for ZANU PF and Mugabe family propaganda.

ZBC listeners and viewers are currently undergoing a serious punishment in form of a mental psyching from an institution whose funding is derived from public funds in which they are forced to listen and buy in to a sanctions mantra that does not resonate with the genuine cause of their suffering.

Yes, ZBC listeners and viewers know very well that the cause of the country’s problems is an illegitimate anti people military regime that went on a rampage killing innocent and defenseless citizens on 01 August 2018 and not some travel embargo on a few elite yet they are forced to bear the brunt of listening to an anti-sanctions sermon on a supposedly public broadcaster that owes its existence to their pockets.

It is lamentable that to ZBC public interest has since been redefined to mean Mnangagwa and military cabal’s selfish interests!

We know very well that all this spirited overtures by Mnangagwa’s administration to have targeted embargoes lifted is not going to help ordinary citizens but will aid a few corrupt cabal who have off shore accounts to enjoy the loot in luxurious Western destinations.

As an Assembly, we are very clear that the biggest sanctions in our land is a political party that has left a trail of plunder and destruction and that party is ZANU PF!

The biggest sanctions in our land is a political grouping that abduct political opponents and that grouping is fronted by Emmerson Mnangagwa!

Yes, no sanction is bigger than a political establishment that ensures that 40 years after independence, we remain with ZBC TV as a solitary television broadcaster on the land!

FreeTheAirwaves!
Zvakwana!
OurCountryToo!

Stephen Sarkozy Chuma

MDC Youth Assembly National Spokesperson