Death blow for media freedom in Zimbabwe

dArKeR

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Mon Feb-09-04 12:05 AM
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Death blow for media freedom in Zimbabwe

The death of media freedom in Zimbabwe is being mourned after a Supreme Court ruling effectively put journalists under government control.

The ruling, which upheld restrictive media laws controlling local journalists and foreign correspondents, gave Jonathan Moyo, the information minister and President Robert Mugabe's spin doctor, the power to decide who works as a journalist.

Only one supreme court judge, Justice Wilson Sandura, disagreed with the findings, calling them "unconstitutional".

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=68&art_id=qw1076232241103Z530&set_id=1

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notbush

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Mon Feb-09-04 12:42 AM
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1. mugabe is an animal

so...so...sad.

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Mon Feb-09-04 01:22 AM
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2. Here's a good book people should read:

The Hearts of Darkness: How White Writers Created the Racist Image of Africa
by Milton G. Allimadi,

It's not about Zimbabwe, but it's illuminating nonetheless.

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