Terrence Mawawa| Masvingo  In a desperate bid to portray the just ended stay away as a total failure, the state controlled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) made a glaring factual error, in its reportage.
The ZBC was left with egg on the face after broadcasting a file tape claiming normal lessons were conducted at the government run Ndarama High School in Masvingo.
ZBC Masvingo bureau chief Josephine Mugiyo,did a voice over on a file tape claiming the state broadcaster’s news crew was at Ndarama High School on Thursday.
In a hilarious twist to the broadcast, senior staff members from the school have argued that the file tape used by ZBC was recorded a few years ago and the public broadcaster’s bureau chief never set a foot at the school Ndarama on Thursday.
In a desperate attempt to portray the national strike as a fiasco,the ZBC reported everything was normal at Ndarama High Schools and scores of people were interviewed to authenticate the fabricated story.
Although Ndarama High School head Mrs Makausi could not be reached for a comment,staff members at the school maintained the ZBC news team did not record the video footage on Thursday.
“We were surprised by the video footage that was shown on ZBC TV. The footage was a file tape so it is naive for the ZBC to claim normal lessons were conducted at Ndarama High School.
The incident is very embarrassing because we expect the state broadcaster to be answerable to the people,”said a senior staff member at the school.             Former Ndarama High School students also slammed ZBC on facebook ,arguing the public broadcaster should apologise for lying to the whole nation.