Media News
The state-run Herald newspapers, reports that Zimbabwe Newspapers has re-assigned most of the company’s editors to head the different newspaper and magazine titles with William Chikoto, current editor of the weekly Sunday Mail, taking over as editor of the company’s flagship, The Herald.
The group’s Editor-in-Chief Pikirayi Deketeke said yesterday that Zimpapers [...]
by MIZ reporter
The ZBH has unveiled its new Television Program schedule to include more forty brand new programs.The dedication to arenas such as women in business, the environment and private equity comes as the station moves to a more creative and interactive program schedule.
The aim of the new programming is expected to improve the viewer [...]
News Headlines
The U-S based Zimbabwe Times reports that former Finance Minister and Zanu-PF politburo member, Dr Simba Makoni, will finally launch his Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn party on Wednesday,(1 July 2009) sources say.Makoni joined hands with some disgruntled Zanu-PF officials to form the Mavambo-Kusile-Dawn movement in early 2008, just ahead of the March 29 elections. Makoni was a candidate [...]
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Presidential Powers in the “Kariba Draft Constitution”
[Electronic version of Kariba Draft Constitution available on request]
Background
On 30 September 2007 at Kariba, the Minister of Justice and the Secretaries-General of the two MDC formations agreed upon a draft Constitution to replace the present Constitution of Zimbabwe. The draft, which is known as the Kariba Draft, [...]
Media Africa
by MISA
The African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) recommended that the government should “decriminalise” offences relating to the accreditation and the practice of journalism in Zimbabwe.
The commission ruled in favour of MISA-Zimbabwe, Independent Journalists Association of Zimbabwe (IJAZ) and Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in a case [...]
As Zambia is grappling with the effects of the unearthed corruption scam in the ministry of health involving billions of Kwacha, it becomes relevant to remind the government that transparency in running
government and handling public resources is very crucial”.
This situation could have been avoided if there was transparency in the way the resources generated in [...]
Media International
The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on the Iranian authorities to immediately release all jailed journalists and to stop vilifying the foreign press. CPJ also welcomed the release of a number of employees of the reformist newspaper Kalameh Sabz who had been held since June 23.
In recent days, the Iranian government has launched a [...]
Both of Ahmadinejad’s challengers in the election, Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, have urged supporters to not accept the results as supporters clash with police. Also, the press and journalists are being suppressed by the government as they attempt to report on the outcome of the election. For More Click Here
From the Editor
Media In Zimbabwe, would like to inform its readers that is now on FaceBook. This is in recognition of the popularity of FaceBook to network, given the fact that most Zimbabwean journalists are all over the world.
Journalists need to network, especially at this point in our country’s history, so that we can come together, share [...]
Media In Zimbabwe would like to apologise to all its readers for the non-activity in the last few days.
We have been unable to update you with the latest media headlines but we hope resume normal operations on Thursday, latest Friday this week.
Any inconvenience is sincerly regretted.
Thank you.
MIZ Editor
MMPZ Reports
June 22nd –June 28th 2009
1. General Comment
MMPZ notes with concern the unprofessional manner in which the government papers have been covering the proceedings of recent court trials involving MDC officials and civic activists.
Instead of providing complete, fair and balanced coverage of the proceedings, the papers have frequently highlighted the State’s prosecution evidence while suffocating [...]
June 15th – June 21st 2009
General Comment
The Sunday Mail (21/6) provided fresh evidence of the residual paranoia prevailing within government over the free flow of information that threatens to undermine the MDC’s repeated promises to reform the media as envisaged in the Global Political Agreement.
The government-controlled weekly reported “highly placed government sources” telling [...]