{"id":32535,"date":"2021-01-11T19:55:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T17:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=32535"},"modified":"2021-01-11T18:38:53","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T16:38:53","slug":"my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Conscience Is Clear\u2019, Mugwadi Responds To Sanef Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>ZANU PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi is unfazed by criticism from the South African National Editors\u2019 Forum (Sanef) after she clashed with SABC Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Sanef had demanded that the ZANU PF leadership step in and discipline Mugwadi for what it said was an assault on media freedom and freedom of expression by the latter through his daily posts on social media.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mugwadi said his conscience is clear and he will continue defending Zimbabwe\u2019s leaders against \u201cfake news\u201d peddlers. He posted on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>Stand with @Sophie_Mokoena, @SAEditorsForum @SABCNews &amp; fake news peddling on Zim &amp; it\u2019s leadership. That\u2019s is your choice.<\/p>\n<p>My conscience is clear, I stand with Zim, it\u2019s Leadership &amp; it\u2019s people against fake news.<\/p>\n<p>This handle will remain alert to fake news.<\/p>\n<p>#TiredOfFakeNews<\/p>\n<p>Mugwadi has come under fire from ZANU PF senior leadership after he insinuated that an ANC delegation which visited Zimbabwe last year had a sinister agenda.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Sunday, the party\u2019s national spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo rebuked Mugwadi over his utterances. Moyo said:<\/p>\n<p>The ANC of South Africa and Zanu-PF enjoy excellent and fraternal relations dating back to the days of our liberation struggle and continue blossoming up to this day.<\/p>\n<p>To suggest that the ANC delegation came to Zimbabwe with a hidden agenda is compound mischief, uninformed, unacceptable and unpatriotic.<\/p>\n<p>Moyo\u2019s statement came after South Africa\u2019s President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday dared Mugwadi to come out with his \u201cbombshell\u201d and reveal the real reason behind his party\u2019s visit to Harare in 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. ZANU PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi is unfazed by criticism from the South African National Editors\u2019 Forum (Sanef) after she clashed with SABC Foreign Editor Sophie Mokoena on Twitter. Sanef had demanded that the ZANU PF leadership step in and discipline Mugwadi for what it said was an assault [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,35,12,15],"tags":[1493,2189,2460,1951,1926,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-32535","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-homepage-english","9":"category-policy","10":"category-twitter","11":"tag-africa-press","12":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","13":"tag-sanef","14":"tag-sophie-mokoena","15":"tag-tafadzwa-mugwadi","16":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>\u2018My Conscience Is Clear\u2019, Mugwadi Responds To Sanef Criticism - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"ZANU PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi is unfazed by criticism from the South African National E ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u2018My Conscience Is Clear\u2019, Mugwadi Responds To Sanef Criticism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"ZANU PF Director of Information and Publicity Tafadzwa Mugwadi is unfazed by criticism from the South African National E ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-01-11T17:55:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-01-11T16:38:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2021\/01\/img-5ffc7ef3628e1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"809\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/my-conscience-is-clear-mugwadi-responds-to-sanef-criticism\",\"name\":\"\u2018My Conscience Is Clear\u2019, Mugwadi Responds To Sanef Criticism - 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