Jessie Majome, the Media and Publicity subcommittee chairperson, said during the time of outreaches held to gather views of Zimbabweans on what they wanted included in the new constitution, ZBC refused to air Copac adverts making information dissemination to masses difficult.
“Now they have aired our adverts but the charges they have put on us are too much to handle at a time when we are driving a noble thing that, as a national broadcaster, they should feel obliged to support by all means,” Majome said.
“Maybe it’s because they felt uncomfortable to fund the state run broadcaster but that is the position they have communicated to us,” Gift Marunda, Copac’s acting national coordinator and Finance and Administration Manager told The Zimbabwean.
ZBC is led by Happison Muchechetere, a war veteran who has not hidden his allegiance to Zanu (PF).
Sources said the state broadcaster which boasts of its monopoly of the airwaves, is on a mission to derail the constitution-making process. Efforts to reform the broadcaster’s board are being strongly opposed by recalcitrant hardliners in President Mugabe’s party.
Post published in: Zimbabwe News