Foreign papers? Not on my watch, biatch!

Think our South African Protection of Information Bill is scary? It’s nothing on Zimbabwe’s media commission, which has announced that it will actively ban foreign newspapers and magazines henceforth, as they do not meet its “standards”, and have not registered properly for distribution in Mugabe-land.

The Zimbabwe media commission has resolved to bar affected papers from entrance into and circulation within Zimbabwe until they comply with Zimbabwe’s laws,

Commission chair Godfrey Majonga said in a statement.

Apparently our very own Sunday Times is one of the principal offenders, as not all of it’s journalists have the required accreditation to publish their colonial nonesense within our neighbour’s borders.

This won’t be news to media outlets in Zimbabwe, who have suffered increasingly tight restrictions over the last decade, including being forced to stop press, and having journalists arrested and harassed by government forces.

The so-called Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act was a major point of disagreement between coalition partners ZANU-PF and the MDC under Morgan Tsvangirai, who vowed to do away with the law three years ago when entering the world’s shoddiest political marriage.

Sorry comrades, it looks like your weekly dose of the Sunday Times Magazine has become yet another reason to creep across the border.

[Source: News 24]