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Media censorship rife in Zimbabwe─── CATHY DLODLO 12:30 Wed, 13 Jul 2016
Pretoria - Media censorship is currently on everyone’s lips as civil rights’ groups, journalists and political parties are criticising the SABC’s Hlaudi Motsoeneng’s policy to censor footage of violent protests.
ICASA ruled against this policy on Monday. But the independence of the media is of an even greater concern in South Africa’s neighbouring country – Zimbabwe.
A Zimbabwean Citizen and Media studies and Communication lecturer at Rosebank College in Pretoria, Ephraim Patsanza, says the independence of the media is being compromised and information censored.
"Under this circumstances it becomes quiet sad to those people who are supposed to be independently carrying out their duty but in this particular case they are being denied of the opportunity. People are supposed to know what is happening on the ground but unfortunately Someone wants the media to tell the world what They are thinking or what They want the world to know" Patsanza says.
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