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Welshman Ncube Blames President Robert Mugabe’s Ruling Zanu PF Party For State Media Arrests

Posted on November 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

FORMER Industry Minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC party has fingered President Robert Mugabe’s ruling Zanu PF party as being behind the slew of arrests of journalists in the past few days. In a statement Wednesday, the MDC said Mugabe and his lieutenants have in the past few weeks “threatened the media hence the arrests”. “The MDC condemns the continued assault on the media in an endeavour to suppress the freedom of the press by the state…

Judge Tendai Mahwe Realeses Sunday Mail Editor And Journalists On On US$100 Bail Each

Posted on November 5, 2015November 5, 2015 by newzimbabwevision

A Zimbabwean court has granted bail to three journalists accused of slander after they allegedly implicated an unnamed top police officer and other officials in the fatal cyanide poisonings of more than 60 elephants by poachers. On Wednesday, Judge Tendai Mahwe released the journalists, who work for a state-owned newspaper, on US$100 bail each. Their case was postponed until November 27. Sunday Mail editor Mabasa Sasa, investigations editor Brian Chitemba and reporter Tinashe Farawo were…