UPDATED: Police charge and release Zimind Editor, Chief Reporter. AMH appoints CTO. ALPHA Media Holdings (AMH), publishers of the Zimbabwe Independent, The Standard and NewsDay, have appointed a chief technology officer (CTO) in line with the company’s vision to be the leader in the provision of multimedia and digital products. Report by digital editor John Mokwetsi AMH becomes the first media house in Zimbabwe to employ a CTO.
This is in compliance with international trends. AMH has a deliberate digital first strategy hence the appointment of the CTO, Kangai Maukazuva, who brings into the company 20 years of international and local experience in both the ICT and telecoms industries. AMH chairman Trevor Ncube, announcing the appointment yesterday, said: “This is a key strategic appointment for our group. Maukazuva brings a wealth of knowledge having been exposed to blue chip organisations at high levels of ICT management. In 1996, Maukazuva joined Star Mutual Assurance Society where he worked as the Technical Support and Systems Administration Manager up to the end of 1997. Ntact us | The Zimbabwe IndependentThe Zimbabwe Independent.
CHAIRMAN: Trevor Ncube tncube@zimind.co.zw GROUP CEO: Raphael M Khumalo rkhumalo@zimind.co.zw Trevor Ncube (Chairman), Raphael Khumalo (Group CEO), Ruvimbo Chipango, Anna Krynska-Godlewska, Jaroslaw Gora, Sternford Moyo, Vulindlela Ndlovu, Sternford Moyo, Mari Budesa. Editorial & Admin Editor in Chief: Vincent Kahiya: vkahiya@zimind.co.zw Editor: Dumisani Muleya: dmuleya@zimind.co.zw Online Department Email: jmokwetsi@alphamedia.co.zwTel: 263 (4) 773939 Technical Email: bgoka@alphamedia.co.zw Online Advertising Silent Kamambo: skamambo@zimind.co.zw Print Advertising Punish MurumbiTel: 263 (4) 773939 Human Resources Tel: 755123-4, 751351 Marketing & Sales. AMH Advert. Protect journos: media. In pursuit of this goal, The Zimbabwe Union of Journalists said it would be engaging the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission to map out ways of keeping journalists safe. ZUJ Secretary General, Foster Dongozi, said the move was in line with the union’s commitment to protect media practitioners, especially during critical periods like elections.
“We are working on several mechanisms that we can put in place to ensure the safety and security of journalists ahead of the elections,” said Dongozi. Dongozi revealed that ZUJ, in collaboration with other African media organisations, was in the process of lobbying African governments to adopt mechanisms on safety and protection of journalists in both conflict and non-conflict zones. ZUJ is signatory to a draft resolution crafted this month by African journalists on the safety of journalists. The resolution implores African states to uphold the UNESCO Resolution 29 on “Condemnation of Violence Against Journalists” adopted on 12 November 1997.
I am a filmmaker in Zimbabwe. I recently produced a 30-minute cancer awareness documentary on a Zimbabwean musician's battle with cancer. how does one get it on BBC, CNN, AlJazeera English, etc? Zimbabwe newspapers covering all angles - storify.com. About us - Newsday: Everyday News for Everyday People. We are our own liberators - Newspaper. Zimbabwe is neither Tunisia nor Egypt. Far from it! In fact, Zimbabwe’s political predicament is far worse than that of these two North African countries before their recent revolutions. But events in the two countries have certainly planted ideas in Zimbabweans’ minds that may influence the country’s future in a significant way. Comparisons can be odious but this is an exercise worth doing in this instance. Until Tunisia’s Jasmine Revolution and Egypt’s Nile Revolution, both were considered passive and docile societies. Zimbabweans are equally perceived as apathetic and docile for having tolerated Robert Mugabe’s repressive regime for so long.
Their fear of Mugabe’s army, police, intelligence agents and youth militia has kept in check any desire to demand freedom through revolutionary means. Similarly, for decades Egyptians and Tunisians lived under the paralysing fear of their leaders’ repressive apparatus - but they finally overcame the fear and liberated themselves. We are our own liberators - Newspaper.
The choice - to be "a good journalist behind bars or a free coward" Facebook - a newsgathering tool in Zimbabwe. In Zimbabwe, a rare retreat in a media attack. Zimbabwean editor Golden Maunganidze reported harassment of vendors of his newspaper. (Masvingo Mirror) In Zimbabwe, where journalists face constant harassment and repressive legislation, it's a rare occasion that the army would back off from its interference with an independent newspaper. But that's what seemed to happen this week in rural Gutu. Between January 14 and 16, a group of soldiers threatened vendors selling the privately owned Zimbabwean weekly, Masvingo Mirror, preventing the sale of about 500 copies in Gutu, a town about 180 miles south of the capital, Harare, according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). "We had started the new year well, but two weeks into the year some soldiers in the area called Gutu ordered a ban on our newspapers," Masvingo Mirror Editor Golden Maunganidze told CPJ via e-mail.
He said the Mirror prints on average of 5,000 copies weekly and competes with the only other local newspaper, the government-controlled Masvingo Star. Zimbabwe police ‘looking for’ newspaper editor. Anger over delay in Zimbabwe reporter's release. Zimbabwe reporter detained for a week. Press Freedom. Paris, France, and Darmstadt, Germany, 19 November 2010For Immediate Release The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum have protested against the latest series of journalist arrests in Zimbabwe and have condemned the increasing climate of intimidation for the country's critical media.
In the latest incident, reporter Nqobani Ndlovu from The Standard newspaper was arrested on 17 November, held overnight and later charged for an article that allegedly made defamatory statements. His colleague Dumisani Sibanda was questioned in the same case but later released. The article appeared in the 14 November edition of The Standard, published by the independent media group Alpha Media Holdings, and alleged that the police were recruiting war veterans loyal to the ZANU-PF party of President Robert Mugabe to take over senior posts ahead of next year's elections. The full letter can be read here. Bail hearing for Standard reporter on Monday - Newsday: Everyday News for Everyday People. T.co / Twitter. Another journalist arrested in Zimbabwe | Media. RadioVop Zimbabwe - Zim Police Arrest Another Journalist.
Bulawayo, November 17, 2010 - Police here on Wednesday morning arrested and detained The Standard newspaper Senior reporter Nqobani Ndlovu over a story on police promotional examinations published in that newspaper on Sunday. Ndlovu’s arrest followed the arrest of the Standard Bulawayo Bureau chief Dumisani Sibanda over the same story on Tuesday. Sibanda was questioned for more than an hour before he was released. Ndlovu was arrested at 930 am in the presence of his lawyer Josephat Tshuma of Webb Low and Barry who had accompanied him to Bulawayo Central police station. Speaking to Radio VOP, Tshuma said police arrested Ndlovu over the story he wrote this week titled “Police Exams Cancelled” which exposed that retired police officers and war veterans had been re-called to take up vacant top posts in the police force to direct operations during next year’s elections and this had led to the cancellation of police promotional examinations this year.
Police refuse to release journalist - Newsday: Everyday News for Everyday People. RadioVop Zimbabwe - Zim Deputy Prime Minister Sues Paper. Harare, November 17, 2010 – Deputy Prime Minister Thokozani Khupe is suing an independent Sunday newspaper for a whopping US$ 500 000 over a story which claimed she was heavily pregnant from a Harare businessman. Court documents in possession of VOP indicate that Khupe is suing for defamation for the page- two story which appeared in The Standard newspaper on October 24.
The paper is part of a newspaper empire owned by media mogul Trevor Ncube. Lawyers representing Khupe delivered summons to the newspaper on 17 November 2010, advising them that the deputy premier was suing over the article entitled “DPM Khupe Dispels Pregnancy Rumours”. The lawyers said the article, which claimed among other things that Khupe was expecting a fourth child and was seeing a Harare businessman, was defamatory. The paper also published a picture depicting that Khupe had a bulging stomach. WAN - Spate of Journalist Arrests in Zimbabwe Raises Concerns. Mugabe clamping down on access to information.
By Alex Bell 18 November 2010 Rights groups have warned that Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF are trying to further stifle Zimbabweans' access to information, in a new controversial bill about to be submitted to parliament. International media rights organisation, Reporters Without Borders, on Wednesday called for the withdrawal of the ‘General Laws Amendment Bill’, announced last month and drafted by the ZANU PF side of the coalition government. The rights group said “the proposed law’s sole aim seems to be to place additional obstacles in the way of access to information and thereby hamper the work of the media even more.” The bill will allow the authorities to block public access to official documents, including judicial decisions, new legislation and public records.
It would enforce copyright on all government documents, which could then only be published with the government’s approval, as the sole copyright holder. Standard journalist still being held in police custody. Ndlovu had been expected to appear in court Thursday to answer charges on a story he wrote about the cancellation of promotional exams in the police force. The Standard scribe alleged in his article that the examinations were being scrapped to facilitate the absorption of war vets and retired officers back into the police force, ahead of next year's elections. SW Radio Africa understands that Ndlovu has been interrogated but has refused to divulge his source for the story.
It is believed this has prompted the police to hold him for a further 24 hours, in the hope of trying to break him to reveal his source. Our Bulawayo correspondent Lionel Saungweme told us Ndlovu's lawyer has now approached the High court to get an injunction to force the police to release his client. 'His lawyer (Josaphat Tshuma) says his client was not taken to court today (Thursday) because he refused to divulge his sources. Zimbabwe Detains Reporter at Standard Newspaper, Owner Says. Zimbabwean police detained a journalist at the Standard newspaper in the second-largest city, Bulawayo, said Alpha Media Holdings, the newspaper’s owner. Nqobani Ndhlovu is being questioned about a story published by the Sunday newspaper alleging that police had scrapped entrance examinations for potential recruits, Trevor Ncube, chief executive officer at Alpha Media, said today by phone from Yaounde, Cameroon, where he is attending a conference.
Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena, speaking from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, said he was not aware of any arrest. To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Latham in Durban at blatham@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Antony Sguazzin in Johannesburg at asguazzin@bloomberg.net. Zimbabwe reporter “terrified and traumatised” by arrest. Zimbabwe journalists claim police intimidation.
Sibanda was released, but one of his journalists, Nqobani Ndlovu, who wrote the offending article entitled 'Police exams cancelled', was handed over by company lawyers at 10am this morning after police arrived at the newspaper's offices. The Standard, a weekly newspaper, is one of three published by the independent media house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH). AMH also publishes The Zimbabwe Independent, a financial weekly, and NewsDay, a daily. All three have websites. Trevor Ncube, Chairman of AMH, described the incident at an act of harassment and intimidation by the police which must not be allowed.
“This confirms our fears that there are elements within the government who don't believe in press freedom and the freedom of expression. There is a sense within the police force that they are a law unto themselves and they can do as they wish. " An editorial in the Standard's sister paper, the daily NewsDay today says journalists in Zimbabwe are walking in “a political minefield.” Nqobani Ndlovu - Tag Results. Zanu PF must stop pestering the media. Sibanda was interrogated for two hours over a story that in another newspaper which dealt with the suspension of regular police promotion examinations in order to head-hunt retired officers for re-deployment during the next election. Last week, police officers in Harare visited the offices of the Zimbabwe Independent and interviewed the editor; Constantine Chimakure over a story published by the newspaper in August that quoted a letter written by the Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri to the Ministers of Home Affairs in which he opposed the governments planned electoral reforms.
Harare police are understood to be looking for Farai Mutsaka, a former Zimbabwe Independent news editor. Trumped-up criminal defamation charges continue to be laid against the journalists for exposing corruption. Those behind the arrests are people who are still stuck in the archaic politics of rampant greed and seek to escape the inquisitive eyes of investigative journalism by bullying journalists.