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Ex political prisoners, detainees threaten to clamp down on anti-Mugabe press
28 May 2012 at 09:43hrs | Views
Members of the Zimbabwe Ex-Political Prisoners, Detainees and Restrictees Association (Zeppdra) yesterday threatened to clamp down on privately-owned newspapers, accusing them of demonising Zanu-PF leader President Robert Mugabe.
Chairperson of the associations Harare provincial leadership, Percy Kuzvinzwa, said they had given the privately owned newspapers a month to give positive coverage to Mugabe or they would attack vendors selling the newspapers.
"We are giving NewsDay and the Daily News up to a month to stop reporting negatively about President Mugabe," Kuzvinzwa said.
If they continue, we will attack their vendors in the streets. We still have the energy to do so.
Suspected Zanu PF supporters in outlying parts of the country have banned circulation of newspapers that are hostile to Mugabe in their areas.
Kuzvinzwa was addressing over 200 Zeppdra members at High Glen shopping centre in Harare where they claimed to have seized a vacant piece of land owned by Old Mutual.
Clad in Zanu-PF regalia, the ex-detainees chanted and danced to Zanu-PF songs while brandishing Mugabes portrait and national flag under the watchful eye of the anti-riot police.
Chairperson of the associations Harare provincial leadership, Percy Kuzvinzwa, said they had given the privately owned newspapers a month to give positive coverage to Mugabe or they would attack vendors selling the newspapers.
"We are giving NewsDay and the Daily News up to a month to stop reporting negatively about President Mugabe," Kuzvinzwa said.
Suspected Zanu PF supporters in outlying parts of the country have banned circulation of newspapers that are hostile to Mugabe in their areas.
Kuzvinzwa was addressing over 200 Zeppdra members at High Glen shopping centre in Harare where they claimed to have seized a vacant piece of land owned by Old Mutual.
Clad in Zanu-PF regalia, the ex-detainees chanted and danced to Zanu-PF songs while brandishing Mugabes portrait and national flag under the watchful eye of the anti-riot police.
Source - newsday
