The Zimbabwean government has urged African nations to join hands to fight domination by powerful Western countries, state-media reported Thursday.
”The new global village … poses the danger of forcing the poor, newly independent and formerly exploited countries like Zimbabwe to play the game when the table is badly tilted against them,” Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said during a lecture to army chiefs at the Zimbabwe Staff College.
He said countries like Zimbabwe, Tanzania and South Africa should ”stand fighting for their space”.
He accused global media networks of biased coverage of Zimbabwe and called for African countries to transmit their own information overseas.
”Let’s have our own inventors to compete with those who are ahead of us … the whole world is being given one-sided information about us,” Ndlovu said.
Last week, the government expressed outrage at what it termed biased coverage by Western media such as the BBC and CNN of the arrest and beating of opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai while in police custody last week.
Many Zimbabweans have turned to foreign-based radio stations and television channels for an alternative to broadcasts by government-controlled radio and television stations.
There are no private radio stations operating in the Southern African nation despite an amendment six years ago to the broadcasting law that was designed to end the monopoly of the government-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings. — AFP
