Zanu PF bid to ‘cripple’ 1st TV absurd
One can only come to a very sad conclusion pertaining to the government’s mindset on the state and pace of our broadcasting sector development.
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One can only come to a very sad conclusion pertaining to the government’s mindset on the state and pace of our broadcasting sector development.
HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s spokesman George Charamba has bizarrely claimed that solar-powered and wind-up shortwave radios are being ‘smuggled’ into Zimbabwe ‘to effect regime change.’
The curtain came down on the 13th Zanu (PF) annual People’s Conference in Gweru on Saturday with the party calling for the muzzling of private radio stations and its First Secretary and President, Robert Mugabe, begging for internal unity ahead of what he described as a “watershed” election next year.
The MDC reasserts that it is still the most popular party within Zimbabwe. That it has had a positive impact on the lives of the people of Zimbabwe since it formed the Inclusive Government can never be doubted.
Voice of America (VOA)’s radio station project in Zimbabwe, Studio 7, is facing financial difficulties after a major donor cut its funding, the Sunday News, a paper controlled by Zanu PF party is claiming.
EDDIE CROSS: So 2011 ends, for Zanu PF on a disturbing note, their leadership ailing, their camp divided and now the pillars of their grip on the State under attack from a quarter where they have no control.
MISA-Zimbabwe has been following with particular interest the seemingly contentious issue of shortwave radio stations within the context of the ongoing SADC mediation process. It is MISA Zimbabwe’s well considered view that broadcasts by shortwave radio stations is an internationally accepted global phenomenon in terms of the International Telecommunications Union Treaty and is in tandem […]
Press Statement: Response to Zimbabwe State Media allegations that Botswana is hosting “pirate radio” stations The Government of Botswana has noted the re-appearance of allegations in a section of the Zimbabwe media that it is hosting hostile “pirate” radio stations. In this respect Botswana wishes to once more state in no uncertain terms that she […]
By Never Kadungure The Coordinator of the Botswana Government Communications and Information Services (BGCIS) Dr Jeff Ramsey said on Friday that his country would ignore Mugabe regime complaints over the hosting of so-called pirate radio stations like VOA’s Studio 7. Dr Ramsey was responding to rabid complaints coming from Zimbabwean state media newspaper The Herald. […]