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Victory for Daily News
19/12/2003 12:40 - (SA)
Harare - A court in Zimbabwe on Friday ruled in favour of the country's only independent daily, the Daily News - shut down for the past three months - by granting it an order which allows it to resume publishing, the paper's legal adviser said.
The Daily News, a fierce critic of President Robert Mugabe, was shut down by armed police in September for operating without a licence. It has made several legal attempts since then to get back onto the country's newsstands.
"They've given us the order (to continue publishing)," Daily News legal adviser Gugulethu Moyo told AFP via telephone from the second city of Bulawayo.
She said this meant both the Daily News and its sister paper the Daily News on Sunday could resume publishing.
"As soon as we can get something out we will," she said.
Moyo said that Judge Selo Nare had enforced a court order obtained by the Daily News on October 24, which ruled that the state-appointed Media and Information Commission (MIC) should grant the Daily News a licence by November 30.
That order never came into effect because the MIC immediately appealed against the ruling to the Supreme Court.
But Moyo said that Friday's ruling would be enforced "notwithstanding any appeal by the (MIC)".
- AFP
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