By Farai D Hove| The state media broadsheet, The Herald was Saturday criticised over an article mocking popular comedian “Gonyeti” Samantha Kureya over her abduction on the 21st of August 2019.

The state original article was titled “Has comedienne’s case mojo Gone Yet?”

Scores of Zimbabweans chastised the state paper with some saying the Herald must either be shut down or put into the capable hands.

The reactions got to the point of doubting the capabilities of the board of directors.

The Saturday Herald article was authored by a journalist named “Nyore Madzianike” who said “there is strong suspicion that the alleged abduction on the night of August 22 (actually August 21) was stage-managed for political expediency or to raise the stock of the controversial drama queen.”

Below were a series of tweets by journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and the reactions thereafter:

3. 2day the Herald in a disgusting article mocked comedienne Gonyeti, of @bustoptv. Mukoma @ShingiMunyeza, if papers owned by a group on which you are a board member continue with these dishonourable attacks, it will be difficult for the citizen to separate your views from theirs pic.twitter.com/IWtqMOzRgG

— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) August 31, 2019

What I find shocking is that respectable members of the PAC like @ShingiMunyeza who is also a Zimpapers board member, spend time trying to fix Zim’s relationship with the rest of the world, yet on another end, the regime’s poisonous State media led by Zimpapers churns out poison! https://t.co/BapL33G5de pic.twitter.com/IDdu1rMSnq

— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) August 31, 2019

2. Foreign Minister @MinisterSBMoyo travels the globe fixing damaged relations with Western countries including America! Yet back home the poisonous @HeraldZimbabwe newspaper churns out childish attacks on the representative of @realDonaldTrump who holds the keys to reengagement. pic.twitter.com/NihEGl67Yg

— Hopewell Chin’ono (@daddyhope) August 31, 2019