Staff Reporter|Newsday| The letter authored by Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai which leaked to journalists at the weekend is 100% authentic, the MDC leader’s chief of staff Jameson Timba has confirmed.
Timba who is the Minister of State in the Prime Minister’s Office, said although the correspondence was authentic, its publication was in breach of the Official Secrets Act and Cabinet rules.
Timba has burst out in rage charging that Sunday Mail journalists breached Official Secrets act by publishing the letter before either Tsvangirai or Mugabe published it, a claim which Presidential spokesperson George Charamba denies and lays blame on Tsvangirai’s MDC party for allegedly leaking the document.
Jameson Timba: Leaked Tsvangirai letter to Mugabe is 100% authentic
“Indeed the letter in question was delivered to the President on Friday and such correspondence is governed by the Official Secrets Act and the rules of Cabinet, which means the only people who can publish it are the President and the Prime Minister,” he said.
“The publication of that memorandum was against the law and in conflict with known Cabinet rules.
“If they were to publish that information, it would have been proper if they had waited for the President or the Prime Minister to make it public information.”
But Mugabe’s spokesperson George Charamba defended The Sunday Mail and accused officials from the PM’s Office of leaking the memorandum. He claimed the letter had not been delivered to Mugabe.
“Who breached the Official Secrets Act — is it the newspaper which published the document or the people who leaked it? In the first place, nothing came to the President and he did not receive anything from the PM.
“One cannot breach confidentiality on something that does not exist and, as things stand, there was no dispatch from the PM to the President,” Charamba said.
“The PM should be wary of his staff who are betraying his trust and confidentiality,” said Charamba
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mugabe is right lve hm alone
machinda dare renyundorakaapenga viva mazimbo .kikikik
stop polics and woship god.ther is life afta deth
Tafatatunda? Kikikikikikiki… argh, huh… hahahahahaha.. ah no! Sniff, sniff! Ummmmmm. MaZimbo makaoma!
Apa handioni kana nyaya iripo ini, the PM and the President must know that everything they do is virtually public, kana yabuda tsamba yabuda lets talk about the contents, whoever leaked it hazvichinei nesu izvo, why be allowed to divert attention in the first place. Tsvangirai wrote it, and abvuma so what?
Where does your TB come in this topic no wonder why you failed grade 7 you go off topic.Talk about the leaked report by Makone and Timba.
All we need to do is to “Get Zimbabwe working again”with a totally neutral party such as Mavambo
Papi pacho charamba paangatadza kutsigira zimpapers naboss wake bob. Anyway vakomana muchamhanya countdown 59days the old African sitting president will fall. Thus says the lord through his servant
Iwe Sarah kakudo kemunhu TB Joshua chii zvinei nesu izvozvo. Who doesn’t know that KK and Madhiba are not feeling well and that anything can happen to them at anytime? Even if it is President Mugabe dying, whats so special about that? Who is going to live forever here on earth? Ivai vanhu mhani ndosaka iwaya manaijimbi akukuvadzai neblambi munongokabira zvese zvese.
Iwe Chando Kupenga. Ngatidzokere panyaya ya Muranda waMwari TB Joshua apo, haikona kutiza chikomana!
Mazobvumaka kuti this GNU creature does not work,whats left now is to come up with the dates for the elections.This marriage of convenience has beem a big setback to Zimbabwe.As to who leaked the “confidential” document its now an open secret that Chematama’s house is not in order,there is a lot of back stabbing particulary Ian Makone and Timba, i dont know why Chematama trusts these two guys so much,they are the same people who exposed him over the Lorcadia affair.