Originally Posted by missglitter:
“I would be very wary about trusting any content from a Zimbabwe site - it's all propaganda financed and controlled by the Mugabe dictatorship.
Remember this is a country that had a rcently rigged election and a country where a trusted and unbiased corporation like the BBC is considered the sworn enenemy - they're not even allowed in there. It's like trusting a piece from on the Third Reich's newspapers back in the day. You just know it's all trite.
Most of the reporting in the piece was inaccurate - basic facts etc. Just garbage”
This online newspaper is in fact anti the Mugabe regime and is hosted from Wales in the UK. It seems the independent Zimbabwe media doesn't like Makosi. Read below:
New Zimbabwe
Mugabe's spokesman in threat to Zimbabwe news websites
By Staff Reporter
Last updated: 01/07/2005 11:58:07
THE Zimbabwe government has launched a desperate attempt to bully foreign
journalists and news websites hosted from abroad from reporting on the
on-going Spy-gate Scandal which has sucked in top officials including
President Robert Mugabe's nephew.
And in an apparent bid to divert journalists from closely probing government
officials, the State-controlled Herald newspaper ran a curious story on
Friday claiming three opposition Movement for Democratic Change MPs were
also under investigation for spying for foreign governmentrs -- although the
opposition has no access to official State secrets.
In a statement, President Mugabe's spokesman George Charamba said
journalists should stick "strictly to court proceedings as briefed to them
by those in the know or handling the case", claiming there were national
security concerns.
"The recent spate of speculative pieces on the matter, some of them quite
incriminating and defamatory to individuals who include Government
ministers, was needless and certainly contrary to the requirements of the
law and good journalism," Charamba railed.
"Government notes, with concern, falsehoods on the case, some of which have
been posted on websites associated with the opposition. This is a grave
matter which can attract serious consequences, including legal ones," he
said.
With the State-media firmly under its grip, the Zimbabwe government has
desperately failed to stem the leaks and flow of information to news
websites like New Zimbabwe.com which operates from Wales and others dotted
across the globe.
On Tuesday this week, New Zimbabwe.com dropped a bombshell with the
sensational story revealing that two ministers linked to the spying scandal
were National Security Minister Nicholas Goche and Local Government Minister
Ignatius Chombo.
President Mugabe's nephew and Chinhoyi legislator Phillip Chiyangwa,
Zimbabwe's Ambassador-designate to Mozambique Godfrey Dzvairo, Zanu-PF
director of external affairs Itai Marchi, the party's deputy security chief
Kenny Karidza and former banker Tendai Matambanadzo have appeared in court
charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.
They are accused of selling State secrets to unnamed foreign governments.