3 August 2009 Zim News Flash
Written on August 3, 2009 by Emily
Zimbabwe’s Daily News to get licence back
IN a dramatic turn of events, the Zimbabwe government has granted the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe’s (ANZ) an operating licence as a mass media service provider – six years after its flagship newspaper, The Daily News, was shut down, reports a journalism.co.za correspondent.
ANZ are the publishers of both The Daily News and Daily News On Sunday, the two titles which were shut down by the government-appointed Media and Information Commission (MIC) on September 12, 2003. A special committee set up in September 2008 to review the decision was “satisfied that the Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (ANZ) have complied with the provisions of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act”.
Zim looks to SA for investment aid
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has called for South African investment in his country. “We believe South African companies are better placed to understand the environment in Zimbabwe,” Tsvangirai said at a dinner with South African business and government officials in Sandton on Friday night. “Instead of attracting foreign investment from Europe and other places, we believe that South African companies can operate in an environment that is almost similar (to their own).” South Africans were in a position to understand the “politics, economics and potential of the country”, Tsvangirai said. The Zimbabwean government did not have the resources to make major infrastructure investments, “but if there are private companies who would like to go into private-public partnerships … they are welcome”.
Tsvangirai tells exiles he cannot help them
Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai described the conditions under which exiled Zimbabweans were living in the Johannesburg Central Methodist Church as a ’sorry sight’
on Saturday, but could not commit himself to any assistance. During a rally to mark the 10th anniversary of the launch of his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Tsvangirai said that on a previous visit to the church he had seen people sleeping all around it. He was responding to a request for assistance from a tearful woman living in the church. She complained of a tough life in SA, beginning with rape at the hands of criminals at the border and ending up on the cold streets of Johannesburg.
Tsvangirai’s grip on power being steadily weakened
Zimbabwe is on the verge of a new political crisis, amid growing evidence that President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF Party has launched a strategy to wipe out the former opposition’s slim parliamentary majority. The campaign has in the past few days seen MPs for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) arrested for offences including playing music that “denigrates” Mugabe, and stealing a mobile phone. Fourteen MDC MPs and senators are facing charges ranging from corruption to rape. If convicted, they will lose their seats, forcing byelections.
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