THE secretary general of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti has slapped the Zimbabwe Newspapers group with a US$ 500 000 defamation lawsuit based on a seri

THE secretary general of the Morgan Tsvangirai-led Movement for Democratic Change, Tendai Biti has slapped the Zimbabwe Newspapers group with a US$ 500 000 defamation lawsuit based on a seri

Zanu PF appears absolutely determined to retrace its footprints of failure. Firstly and perhaps most egregiously we have seen the abuse of those broadcasting instruments currently in the hands of the state.

Apart from publicizing the threats – and some violence, the private media quoted analysts and civic organizations arguing that the problem would undermine the credibility of COPAC’s exercise.

Staff Reporter MDC branch chairman for South End-on-Sea in the United Kingdom Mr Stanford Biti has described Zimbabwe’s ambassador to German Mr Hebson Makuvise as behaving like a “maggot”, The Zim Diaspora can reveal.

Their indictment stemmed from a story published in The Zimbabwean On Sunday (10/1): Mnangagwa plots fight-back: talk of new splinter group, alleging infighting in ZANU PF over President Mugabe’s succession.

HARARE The MDC has officially protested to the State media over biased reporting, selective coverage and a black-out on party activities. Morgan Tsvangira

By Our Correspondent HARARE – Tendai Biti, secretary-general of the mainstream MDC, has attacked the government-controlled Herald newspaper over a report

Speaker Lovemore Moyo By Our Correspondent HARARE – The Speaker of Parliament Lovemore Moyo has lashed out at the state- controlled Herald newspaper for

In its first story last week, The Herald (1/10), quietly reported on an inside page Media, Information and Publicity Minister, Webster Shamu, announcing “the appointment of new board members to various parastatals under his ministry…” including the board of Zimpapers itself, the country’s biggest publishing company listed on Zimbabwe’s stock exchange.

War of words over fate of indigenization THE haggling and confusion over power sharing between the coalition partners was reflected in the media’s coverage on the status of the controversial indigenization regulations.

This clearly illustrates that under Mugabe’s control government has no intention of repealing the restrictive sections of AIPPA governing the public’s right to access information held by government.

This is to satisfy the whims of their besieged political masters who would like Herald readers to believe there is a conspiracy to bring about regime change. There is of course a conspiracy, but it involves the people of Zimbabwe.

True to fashion and tradition, The Herald today sought to reinvent their tired fiction of divisions within the MDC leadership over the issue of the so-called sanctions.

This was despite the fact that Nowak was deported while on an official visit in the country, albeit no longer as the Justice Minister’s guest, but that of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

Biti is Finance Minister in the inclusive Government while Mashakada holds no post in Government. A recent review of practices at MDC HQ, Harvest House, following a violent incident identified a lack of senior leadership at the HQ.

For the first time since the banning of the country’s most popular paper, The Daily News in 2003, Zimbabweans will again have a choice about where they obtain their news and entertainment.

This is a patently and transparently untrue position that George Charamba is trying to present though he knows fully well that the agenda items list that had 19 items was a the distillation of the issues raised in the Maputo Summit.