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Zimbabwe: Editor and senior journalist a…
08 May 2013
Dumisani Muleya, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent and chief reporter, Owen Gagare, were on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 arrested and charged with publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Editor lodges appeal a…
23 April 2013
Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation magazine, has lodged an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) understands the appeal went through late Monday (22 April)...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Support pours in for e…
22 April 2013
Support continues to pour in for Bheki Makhubu, an editor in Swaziland who was recently threatened with a two-year jail term for “scandalising the court”. Makhubu was ordered to pay...
Read moreZimbabwe: Police officer assaults journa…
19 April 2013
An unnamed female police inspector on 18 April 2013 assaulted Newsday reporter Nduduzo Tshuma and photographer Resta Nyamwanza while they were covering explosions at a Redan petrol filling station in...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Editors’ forum condemn…
18 April 2013
The Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) has condemned a possible two-year jail term or US$20,000 fine imposed on Bheki Makhubu, an editor, by the courts in Swaziland. Makhubu edits...
Read moreSwaziland: Editor faces 2 years in jail …
18 April 2013
One of Swaziland’s few independent source of news, The Nation magazine, has been found guilty of “contempt by scandalizing the court” following its publication of two articles in 2009 and...
Read moreAngola: Journalist detained over suspici…
03 April 2013
Journalist and human rights activist, Rafael Marques, was on 3rd April, 2013, interrogated and detained by the Department for Combating Organized Crime and the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Luanda...
Read moreSwaziland: Suspended editors reinstated …
26 March 2013
The board of directors at the Swazi Observer Newspaper Group have reinstated controversially suspended editors, Alec Lushaba and Thulani Thwala. The reinstatement comes eight months after the pair was suspended...
Read moreZimbabwe: Newspaper offices vacated foll…
18 March 2013
Members of staff at the privately-owned newspaper, The Zimbabwean, on Monday, 18 March 2013 reportedly vacated their offices in the capital Harare following suspicious ‘Unknown’ calls to the news editor Tawanda Majoni. The suspicious persons...
Read moreNamibia: Community Newspaper Editor assa…
14 March 2013
MISA Namibia hereby expresses its shock and condemnation of the recent assault and intimidation of the Editor of the Namib Independent community newspaper, Gareth Amos, by members of the Namibian...
Read moreTanzania Alert-Update: Attacked journali…
11 March 2013
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation, who was brutally attacked on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 by unknown assailants has lost his...
Read moreSouth Africa: Editors’ forum condemns ‘p…
07 March 2013
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has condemned – “in the strongest terms” – what it perceives to be politically-motivated attacks on Zolile Menzelwa, a reporter with the weekly, The...
Read moreTanzania: Editor attacked, seriously wou…
07 March 2013
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation was on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 attacked by unknown assailants at the gate in front...
Read moreZimbabwe: Army bars reporter from coveri…
04 March 2013
Members of the Zimbabwe National Army on Sunday, 3 March 2013 reportedly denied Daily News sports reporter, Blessings Mashaya, entrance into Harare’s Rufaro Stadium to cover a charity soccer match between army...
Read moreZimbabwe: Police raid Radio Dialogue, pr…
04 March 2013
Zenzele Ndebele, the production manager of Radio Dialogue, a community radio station based in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, is expected to appear in court on Monday, 4 March 2013...
Read moreSAEF stament on Swaziland Editor's sentence
18 April 2013
Statement on 2 year jail term or R200,00 fine Imposed on Swazi Editor Bheki Makhubu for ‘Scandalising the court’ The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) strongly condemns the two-year jail term/or R200,000 fine imposed...
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