Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Is Zimbabwe Changing?

Robert Mugabe

Letter From Africa: How The Press Is Challenging Zimbabwe's Government -- The Guardian

Mugabe's stranglehold on press freedom is showing signs of weakening, with a new independent paper about to launch.

The mounted head of a buffalo stared down at me beside the smoky, oak-panelled bar of the New Ambassador hotel. About a hundred journalists were crammed in, sitting or standing, for a debate of noise and passion with interludes of loud hilarity. A government minister sat at the bar and joined in, while another listened as he leaned on a pool table.

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My Comment: The tyrant and his followers are still there .... when they are gone is when there is hope for the Press in Zimbabwe.

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