by Franz Kruger | Oct 9, 2009 | Media freedom
THE licensing of private newspapers, television and radio stations may have to wait a long time after George Charamba, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Publicity, revealed that the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) will only be set up when all...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 9, 2009 | Media freedom
ZIMBABWE'S President Robert Mugabe used an appearance at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) 'World 2009' meeting in Geneva, Switzerland to attack the West for what he called the continued violation of Zimbabwe's airwaves by...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 8, 2009 | Media freedom
PRESS freedom monitoring officers from 11 East African countries have raised the red flag about the media crackdown currently undrway in Uganda. In a statement issued in Kampala, the officers called on the Ugandan government to respect its stated commitment to media...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 7, 2009 | Media freedom
THE SABC wants returned a confidential report in the possession of the Sunday Times that informed a frontpage story on "mass corruption and gross mismanagement" at the state broadcaster, writes Harriet McLea in the Times. The SABC is taking the newspaper to...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 7, 2009 | Media freedom
JUSTICE MINISTER Pendukeni Iivula-Ithana on Saturday laid into The Namibian and its editor, blaming the newspaper for a host of “wrongdoingsâ€ÂÂ, writes Oswald Shivute in The Namibian. Iivula-Ithana, who is also the Secretary General of...
by Franz Kruger | Oct 6, 2009 | Media freedom
MOZAMBIQUE has begun accrediting journalists and foreign observers ahead of the October 28th combined multi-party general polls, writes Charles Mangwiro for journalism.co.za. The Electoral Administration Technical Secretariate, STAE, said 144 Mozambican journalists,...
