ITV News has been nominated for a 2008 International Emmy award for its reports on Zimbabwe – the only UK broadcaster up for one of the prestigious accolades.
The broadcaster, which gets its news output from ITN, was the only one from the UK to be nominated in the International Emmy news and current affairs categories.
The [...]
Freelance photojournalist, Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi, last week left the country for South Africa with his family after being assaulted by the police and having his car confiscated. Mukwazhi says the police accused him of possessing an ‘improperly registered vehicle.’ Mukwazhi had told MISA-Zimbabwe a few days after the assault that the police accused him of having [...]
Zimbabwe’s independent media say it is in no one’s interests for crucial
talks to take place out of the public eye.
Journalists in Zimbabwe are seething with anger at a blanket ban on
negotiators talking to the media while talks are under way between President
Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change,
MDC.
The [...]
The MDC has dismised a report that appeared in a london based website that claimed that one of the observers to the talks,MDC Women’s league Chair and Harare North MP,Theresa Makone was last night ejected from the talks for
allegedly leaking information to the media.
‘That report is completely false’ MDC Information Officer, [...]
Dear George,
I HOPE I find you in good health, even though I appreciate that it must be physically draining to play megaphone to a discredited dictator.
It is painstaking, I presume, to defend an octogenarian who suddenly has very few friends in SADC, in Africa and the broader international community.
It must be infuriating to defend an [...]
Al Jazeera has been denied permission to operate in Zimbabwe, a source in the Ministry of Information and Publicity told Metro.
Its Harare bureau will be moved to Johannesburg.
The source said the government was not happy with its plans to fire its correspondent Supa Mandiwanzira who is being accused of not being objective.
