Posts by Charles Rukuni

Only 35 percent of the people in Zimbabwe believe that there is media freedom in the country according to a worldwide survey conducted Gallup.

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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo was slowly muzzling the press but his approach was quite sophisticated and could in the long run be more effective than simply destroying the printing presses of the Daily News.

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The Movement for Democratic Change has challenged a decree by President Robert Mugabe prohibiting the nullification of the election of any Member of Parliament.

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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo was friends with then Judge President Godfrey Chidyausiku and United States embassy officials speculated as early as January 2001 that as an ardent supporter of President Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Chidyausiku could become chief justice because of the “tireless lobbying” by Moyo.

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Zimbabwe was on Tuesday allowed to sell rough diamonds from Marange’s two diamond companies Mbada and Marange Resources with immediate effect.

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Information Minister Jonathan was linked to a new trust Inyika Trust one of whose members was Harare lawyer Terrence Hussein who said the trust’s main purpose was to provide legal assistance and representation to communal farmers and landless Zimbabweans.

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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo piled pressure on Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay to resign or recuse himself from cases involving the Commercial Famers Union because he had stated way back in 1991 his stance on the land issue.

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The Supreme Court on 10 November ordered the government to halt all farm occupations and resettlement efforts until it complied with all legal requirements under the Land Acquisition Act.

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Jonathan Moyo has courted controversy from the time he was at the University of Zimbabwe, when he moved to the Ford Foundation in Kenya, when he joined the Wits University in South Africa, when he joined the Zimbabwe government, when he left to become an independent Member of Parliament, when he rejoined ZANU-PF and of course when Wikileaks released its diplomatic cables.

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Police on 4 October 2000 shut down a private radio station Capital Radio which was operating from a makeshift studio at the five-star Crown Plaza Hotel.

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