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This is Zimbabwe
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This is Zimbabwe is Sokwanele's pro-democracy activist blog. It provides grassroots news and views from Zimbabwe.
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Whose voice has been amplified?
By granting the Zimbabwe Newspaper Group and known ZANU (PF) supporters broadcasting licenses the already compromised Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe has shown its patronage and the voice it wants amplified. The Tafataona Mahoso led BAZ wants ZANU (PF) to have an amplified voice when the country goes to elections. The Zimbabwe Newspaper Group which is [...]
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Zanu PF kidnaps broadcasting
As the country stepped into the New Year, Zimbabweans look with frustration at the unchanging media landscape in the country. For long they have waited for an alternative to ZBC and when it become apparent that the powers that be where not willing to let go their stronghold on the media people turned to satellite receivers. When [...]
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Zimbabweans switch OFF local radio stations
If you hear of a Political Leader trying to gain popularity through music it means there is something wrong with him or his party. This is no laughing matter and one just needs to drive around the capital City of Harare and bear witness to this new phenomenon. It all started when ZANU PF, through [...]
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Zimbabwe’s media landscape
“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.” – United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Not long ago, a young friend of mine went walking around a [...]
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Zanu PF’s tragic comedy
There was a circus in Bulawayo. The colors and the madness were just too much for the usually laid back city. It’s a comedy with the theme elections that was set and acted by people who have no regard for an election outcome. Yet they want an election, people only ask why? President Robert Mugabe, [...]
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