Zimbabwe - cracks down on SA, UK newspapers
Several top South African publications circulating in Zimbabwe face a ban from the country, along with the UK-published Zimbabwean, unless they register their operations, the Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) head, Godfrey Majonga, said on Friday.
The ZMC argues that it is legally empowered to ban the South African publications under Section 66 and 90 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act as the publications have no offices or representatives in the country to which complaints can be taken to, despite that the SA publications' news content targets a Zimbabwean readership.
"None of the publications or their journalists appears on our registers and we are very concerned at this development," said Majonga.
The Sunday Times was singled out as one of the newspapers that would be subject to the ban. Also certain to be affected is the UK published newspaper the Zimbabwean, run by exiled editor Wilf Mbanga.
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