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Weekly Media Updates 2009
Weekly Media update 2009 - 48
As the year draws to a close, MMPZ remains skeptical of the coalition’s commitment to genuine reform of the country’s media landscape.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 06
Those with access to the Internet and international media were again exposed to the contagion effect of the authorities’ hatred of a free Press exposing their lavish lifestyles.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 07
In recent days the domestic media have provided ample evidence of its utter failure to inform Zimbabweans adequately, particularly regarding political developments since the formation of the new government.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 09
1. General Comment
ZBC’s initial coverage of the road accident that injured Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife, Susan, further exposed the appalling standards of journalism at the public broadcaster.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 47
As this update was being compiled, The Herald (2/12) unwittingly revealed the defects of Article XIX of the Global Political Agreement under which the coalition vaguely undertook to ensure the establishment of “a free and diverse media environment” while at the same time advocating the closure of foreign-based Zimbabwean private radio stations.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 46
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s complaint about ZBC’s unprofessional conduct in his address at the launch of a report on Zimbabwe’s public broadcast media in Harare, during which he also raised fundamental points on media reforms, was vindicated by the broadcaster’s censorship of this newsworthy event.
Weekly Media update 2009 - 40
Recent threats by officials from the ZANU PF arm of government aimed at intimidating the country’s private media blatantly undermine the spirit of democratic reforms envisaged in the Global Political Agreement and illustrate that party’s determination to resist such reforms.
Barely a week after ZANU PF Information Minister Webster Shamu irregularly and unilaterally stuffed media boards with party sympathisers, his permanent secretary George Charamba, warned publishers planning to launch new daily papers that he would have them prosecuted if they published before obtaining proper registration from the yet-to-be-established Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC).
Weekly Media update 2009 - 41
As Africa commemorated African Human Rights Day on October 21, Zimbabwe had very little to celebrate despite promises of democratic reforms contained in the Global Political Agreement (GPA).
The day was set-aside in 1986 by the African Union (then Organisation of African Unity) following an undertaking by African states to promote and protect their people’s freedom, justice, equality and human dignity.
However, 13 months after the signing of the GPA, the coalition has yet to institute any comprehensive democratic reforms that would restore and safeguard Zimbabweans’ basic liberties, corroded by years of the old ZANU PF government’s autocratic rule.
