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Webster Shamu, the Media, Information and Publicity Minister, announced on 30 September 2009 board appointments to the six media-related parastatals which were filled with Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front sympathisers.
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President Robert Mugabe and attorney-general Johannes Tomana refused to meet a three-member International Labour Organisation Commission that had come to the country to investigate labour rights violations.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai described President Robert Mugabe as a violent dictator who was trying to intimidate Africa and the world.
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The Minister of Media and Information Webster Shamu was implicated together with Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa in a poaching operation by a Chinese national who was caught with six rhino horns at a police roadblock.
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Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu refused to see members of the United States Broadcast Board of Governors, which oversees the Voice of America and other United States sponsored propaganda radio stations.
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Four journalists said they were suing Media, Information and Publicity Minister Webster Shamu and his permanent secretary George Charamba for contempt of court after they were barred from covering the Common Market for East and Southern Africa summit because they were not accredited.
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Canada on 24 June 2008 condemned President Robert Mugabe’s government for its actions in the run-up to the presidential elections run-off saying that the violence that accompanied the campaign had contaminated the election.
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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai scolded the media for sensationalising his going into hiding at the Dutch embassy rather than focusing on the continuing brutalisation of Zimbabweans at the hands of the government-sanctioned ZANU-PF youth and war veterans.
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Former President of Sierra Leone Ahmad Tejan Kabbah told United States embassy officials that the international community should accept that Zimbabwe law and not international law should determine what had to be done about Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai’s withdrawal from the 2008 presidential elections run-off.
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Four journalists took Media and Information Minister Webster Shamu to court to retract his statement that journalists should seek accreditation from the Media and Information Commission for the Common Market for East and Southern Africa summit.
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