Journos 'in bid to oust Mugabe'
11/09/2006 11:09  - (SA)  

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Harare - Journalists in Zimbabwe are working undercover to advance Western interests and denigrate President Robert Mugabe's government, the acting minister of information has been quoted as saying.

It was reported that Paul Mangwana said some reporters had dedicated their careers to working with Zimbabwe's enemies to bring about regime change.

Mangwana described those journalists as "willing soldiers in a war that is not theirs".

Mugabe's government and reporters for the private and international media have long had strained relations, which sunk to new lows under the iron rule of former information minister Jonathan Moyo.

In 2002, Moyo managed to bring in tough media laws known as the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), that made it a crime to operate as an unlicensed reporter or to report anything deemed a falsehood.

Under AIPPA, dozens of reporters had been arrested, several foreign correspondents deported, and four private newspapers closed.

Mangwana had been acting information minister since the death of Moyo's successor, Tichaona Jokonya earlier this year.

It was reported that the minister said reporters should report as patriotic Zimbabweans.

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