[Zim Fight On] Re: [DEBATE] : (Fwd) Tsvangirai to Mbeki: demolition job

[Patrick Bond]

Patrick Bond wrote:
> A new denialism?
> ***
> Beware the 'disinformation campaign'
> 4 June 2008, 17:42

(Seems it was merely a case of Pretoriadenialism, yet again.)

MDC: Tsvangirai did write Mbeki
07/06/2008 22:43  - (SA) 
   
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on 
Saturday insisted that its leader has sent a letter to President Thabo 
Mbeki.

Spokesperson George Sibotshiwe told Sunday Times that Morgan Tsvangirai 
wrote a letter to Mbeki last month.

"We can confirm that we sent a letter to President Thabo Mbeki's office 
on May 13 2008. However we can't disclose any detail because this is a 
diplomatic issue."

MDC insisted that the letter published by Sunday Times last week was 
genuine.

On Wednesday, the Director-General in the Presidency, Rev Frank Chikane 
told a press conference that the letter in the Sunday Times' possession 
was a fake.

"I don't see why we should respond to a letter we do not have," he said.

In the letter Tsvangirai accused Mbeki of conniving with Robert Mugabe 
and asked him to step down as a mediator between the MDC and Zanu-PF.

Sibotshiwe said Mbeki's office knew that the MDC has sent a letter 
although the party could not say "who received it".

Another copy would be given to the South African High Commissioner in 
Harare.


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