Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA)

(MISA/IFEX) – The editor-in-chief of “The Daily News”, Geoff Nyarota, was arrested the night of 14 August 2001 by police of the Law and Order Division. Nyarota was picked up after the newspaper ran a story on farm invasions over the weekend of 11 August. The lead story, which appeared on 14 August, alleges that […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Veteran journalist Henry Muhanika, aged 50, and his wife Devota Muhanika, aged 41, were hospitalised after sustaining injuries in a blast at their Manzese Kilimani home in Dar es Salaam, the local English language daily state newspaper “Daily News” reported on Friday 10 August 2001. Police, in collaboration with bomb experts, have yet […]

(MISA/IFEX) – John Saini, publisher of Malawi’s quarterly magazine “Pride”, was threatened on Saturday 11 August 2001 at Chileka International Airport by suspected ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) party officials as President Bakili Muluzi was welcoming leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The leaders are in Malawi to attend an SADC summit. The […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Sunday 12 August 2001, Brian Ligomeka, a 29-year-old stringer for the South African-based “Africa Eye News Service”, was abducted by Young Democrats from the ruling United Democratic Front (UDF) party at Chileka Airport in Blantyre. The journalist was there covering the arrival of heads of state currently attending the 2001 Southern African […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 9 August 2001, Zambia’s director of public prosecutions (DPP), Mukelebai Mukelebai, ordered police to stop criminal proceedings against privately owned “Post” newspaper deputy-news editor Amos Malupenga, and a former deputy minister, Newton Ng’uni, who faced a possible “Defamation of the President” suit. Mukelebai said through a spokesperson that he had studied the […]

(MISA/IFEX) – Minister of State for Information and Publicity Jonathan Moyo has attacked the editor and journalists of the “Zimbabwe Independent”, a weekly business newspaper, accusing them of colluding with foreign correspondents, especially journalists from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In a stinging attack on the information minister, the editor of the newspaper has denied […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On 4 August 2001, the minister of state in the President’s Office responsible for good governance, Wilson Masilingi, asked that the editor and publisher of “Family Mirror”, a weekly English tabloid, apologise to him for what he described as “mudslinging.” He told a press conference on 4 August that he intends to institute […]

(MISA/IFEX) – On Thursday 2 August 2001, police recorded a “warn and caution” statement from Amos Malupenga, a reporter working for the privately owned “Post” newspaper, in relation to a story the newspaper published on the same day. The story alleged that Zambian President Frederick Chiluba had “stolen and shattered to pieces Zambia’s dream.” In […]