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The Divine Madness Democracy Relies on: Journalistic Courage
02 May 2012 at 08:53hrs | Views
PRESS RELEASE: WORLD PRESS DAY
London, May 2 2012 - Every year journalists die to bring us the news. Some lose limbs, their eyesight or hearing gets damaged, but without the divine madness that impels strangers (journalists) to care about the suffering of others, millions die and dictators grow strong.
The Zimbabwe People's Movement represents around three-million Africans living far from their home of Zimbabwe. They are scattered across Africa, Europe, the Americas; they have fled the corrupt dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. Journalists in Zimbabwe labour under acute censorship and threat of arrest, torture and even death if they try to truthfully report on corruption and harm in our country. Foreign journalists slip in and out like thieves pretending they are tourists and taking risks to film the hunger, repression and desperation in what was one of the richest countries in Africa, and now, after three decades of Mugabe's rule is one of the poorest nations in the world.
On World Press Freedom day we, the Zimbabwean people living in Zimbabwe and across the diaspora salute journalists within Zimbabwe and in nations around the world for taking the time to care about the suffering of 12-million people in a small, and often-forgotten country. We need journalists to continue caring, to persist in taking risks, to find the time to seek us out and hear our stories. Robert Mugabe will not be in power forever, he is in his 80s, he will probably die in office and those in government, in the ranks of the opposition, and civil society outside will continue to face stresses. As Nelson Mandela said in the neighbouring country of South Africa: "There is no easy walk to freedom." Ours has been painful, our feet are blistered and bleeding, but we call on you in the media, to persist - and we salute you.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
NAME, Innocent Moyo
TELPHONE: +44 79 834 75294
EMAIL innocent1207@yahoo.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.zimbabwepeoplesmovement.org
(Njabulo Ngwenya 0447947221885)
London, May 2 2012 - Every year journalists die to bring us the news. Some lose limbs, their eyesight or hearing gets damaged, but without the divine madness that impels strangers (journalists) to care about the suffering of others, millions die and dictators grow strong.
The Zimbabwe People's Movement represents around three-million Africans living far from their home of Zimbabwe. They are scattered across Africa, Europe, the Americas; they have fled the corrupt dictatorship of Robert Mugabe. Journalists in Zimbabwe labour under acute censorship and threat of arrest, torture and even death if they try to truthfully report on corruption and harm in our country. Foreign journalists slip in and out like thieves pretending they are tourists and taking risks to film the hunger, repression and desperation in what was one of the richest countries in Africa, and now, after three decades of Mugabe's rule is one of the poorest nations in the world.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
NAME, Innocent Moyo
TELPHONE: +44 79 834 75294
EMAIL innocent1207@yahoo.co.uk
WEBSITE: www.zimbabwepeoplesmovement.org
(Njabulo Ngwenya 0447947221885)
Source - www.zimbabwepeoplesmovement.org
