By Own Correspondent| Magwegwe legislator, Anele Ndebele has criticised state media journalists for writing misleading headlines bent on defaming his character.

Ndebele said the journalists’ headlines implicated him in a bribery scandal.

Speaking before the parliament’s Mines and Energy Committee on Wednesday, Ndebele fumed:

“The Herald articles, whenever their (copies) went out on the streets, they would say ‘four members of the Mines Committee’, but we were not part of the Mines Committee at the time.

When you read the story, you do not need to be a lawyer chairman to tell that the story was written by an idiot…the title is going around the streets defaming us ‘four members of the Mines Committee’. That is attention grabbing.

I would like for this committee as I stated in my affidavit to remind journalists particularly in State owned media to go back to the ethics of journalism and practice.

We were all defamed and this has nothing to do with James Goddard. It has something to do with our rotten press in this country.”-NewZimbabwe