PRESIDENT Mnangagwa will today issue a comprehensive
response to a pastoral letter from the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference,
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting
Services Mr Nick Mangwana said yesterday.
This comes in the wake of letter by the Zimbabwe Catholic
Bishops Conference to the President, which was widely distributed to alll local
media organisations. The letter resonated with the manufactured-crisis mantra
raised by opposition political parties keen on attracting international
spotlight on Zimbabwe after failing to win the 2018 Presidential pebliscite.
It also comes as the Church has apparently ignored
President Mnangagwa’s open door policy which has often seen organisations from
different backgrounds engaging with the Government on different levels.
In a post on micro-blogging platform Twitter, Mr Mangwana
said “regarding issues around the Pastoral Letter by the Zimbabwe Catholic
Bishops’ Conference, President Mnangagwa is going to issue a comprehensive
statement tomorrow (today)”.
The Government has denounced the pastoral letter for
failing to appreciate that Zimbabwe, just like the rest of the world is
grappling with the Covid-19 pandemic and on top of that is also groaning under
the unjustified load of economic sanctions.
Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Senator
Monica Mutsvangwa described the letter as unacceptable while Mr Mangwana said
the letter does not reflect what is on the ground.
The pastoral letter that the Catholic Church recently
published triggered a storm in the country with fresh questions being raised on
the “nefarious relationship” between the Church and the country’s detractors.
The pastoral letter comes hard on the heels of an
anti-Zimbabwe campaign on social media which sought to manufacture a
non-existent crisis in the country that was led by the remnants of the G40
faction, the country’s opposition and some misinformed politicians in South
Africa and the region at large.
However, attempts to soil the image of the Second Republic
have hit a brick wall as the region has ignored calls by the country’s
detractors to put Zimbabwe on the agenda at the ongoing SADC Summit, that is
being held virtually because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Herald
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