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Nyemudzai Kakore Herald Reporter
Zanu-PF yesterday slammed the Daily News for peddling falsehoods that there has been a fallout between First Lady Dr Grace Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Zanu-pf spokesperson Cde Simon Khaya Moyo said in a statement that the Daily News should stop hallucinating and should not abuse the freedom of speech.

He said if the paper’s headlines were meant to increase sales of the paper then “journalism is under assault”.

The Daily News yesterday published a story headlined “Grace dumps Gang of Four”.

The paper went on to claim that the group’s alleged members were President Mugabe’s nephew Cde Patrick Zhuwao; Minister of Environment, Water and Climate Cde Saviour Kasukuwere, Minister of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Professor Jonathan Moyo; and Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Minister Cde Oppah Muchinguri.

The Daily News also claimed that the group had removed former Vice President Joice Mujuru from its way to assume power and it is now going for VP Mnangagwa

“In today’s (yesterday) 27 April 2015, Daily News edition headlined “Grace dumps Gang of Four”, the paper makes so many misrepresentations and falsehoods. Its hallucinations have gone beyond limit,” said Cde Khaya Moyo.

“Zanu-pf has no gangs. We are a well-structured revolutionary party with a well-known liberation war history. The paper’s reference to the First Lady, Dr Grace Mugabe and Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa without courtesy to establish facts is total mischief,” he said.

“Zanu-pf notes with disgust that on a daily basis, the Daily News has become a front of perpetrators of regime change under the guise of freedom of speech. The so-called Politburo informant is either non-existent or a planted agent by the Daily News and its sponsors”.

Cde Khaya Moyo said the ruling party was preoccupied with ways to change the country’s economic condition through the implementation of Zim-Asset.

“Zanu-pf is most preoccupied with the implementation of its economic blueprint, Zim-Asset, to improve the quality of lives of our people,” he said. “We were so mandated by the electorate on 31 July 2013 and no one can stop us from moving for- ward.”

The Daily News has been on overdrive in writing stories about zanu-pf without verifying the facts often relying on the rumours on social media which it peddles as news.