{"id":13059,"date":"2019-09-01T14:40:15","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13059"},"modified":"2019-09-01T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T14:40:15","slug":"zimcodd-slams-banditry-claims-by-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/zimcodd-slams-banditry-claims-by-state-media","title":{"rendered":"ZIMCODD slams banditry claims by State media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimcodd.org\/\">ZIMCODD<\/a>) has denied State media reports it was sponsoring banditry activities through training young Zimbabweans in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Thursday, the civic group described the claims as \u201cmalicious\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/mnangagwas-horror-first-year-in-office-marked-by-repression\">Emmerson Mnangagwa<\/a>\u2019s trip to the Sadc Summit in Tanzania two weeks ago, State media claimed there was a plot by opposition-linked and foreign-sponsored civil society organisations from Zimbabwe to soil the country\u2019s image at the summit through demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis allegation is not only malicious but insulting, provocative and reckless putting the lives of the innocent people who participated at the 2019 People\u2019s Summit at risk,\u201d said the group.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cZIMCODD would like to set the record straight, that never at any one point, was demonstrating against or \u2018smearing\u2019 the President on the agenda of the 2019 People\u2019s Summit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The civil society further denied claims fellow NGOs had travelled with activists to Dar es Salaam to lobby for Harare to be placed on the regional bloc\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The group slammed State media journalists who went ahead with the damning report without taking time to verify facts with it.<\/p>\n<p>The SADC People\u2019s Summit is an annual gathering of social movements from the region whose participants are drawn from youths, women, students, community-based organisations among other relevant stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>The People\u2019s Summit, which is always organised on the side-lines of the SADC Heads of States and Governments, has been convened since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has denied State media reports it was sponsoring banditry activities through training young Zimbabweans in Tanzania. In a statement Thursday, the civic group described the claims as \u201cmalicious\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d. Ahead of President Emmerson Mnangagwa\u2019s trip to the Sadc Summit in Tanzania two weeks ago, State media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[55,31,149,784],"class_list":["post-13059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-government","tag-mnangagwa","tag-president","tag-zimcodd"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ZIMCODD slams banditry claims by State media - zimbabwe<\/title>\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\/zimcodd-slams-banditry-claims-by-state-media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ZIMCODD slams banditry claims by State media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"THE Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development (ZIMCODD) has denied State media reports it was sponsoring banditry activities through training young Zimbabweans in Tanzania. 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