More than 60 journalists in Zimbabwe who were touring areas affected by the government’s controversial Operation Murambatsvina — a slum-clearance programme that left thousands homeless — were on Tuesday denied entry to check on conditions at the Hopley farm settlement for Murambatsvina victims in Harare.
Zimbabwean journalists on Wednesday marched from a local hotel in Harare to where the banned <i>Daily News</i> and <i>The Tribune</i> were formerly housed to mark World Press Freedom Day. Zimbabwe’s theme for World Press Freedom Day this year was <i>No to Statutory Regulation, Yes to Self-Regulation</i>.
Grace Chidanyika (39) is a mother of three girls, two of whom are in school and very bright. One’s dream is to become a lawyer, while the other hopes to be a banker. As the children talk about their dreams, their mother’s eyes cloud with tears as she wonders how she is going to raise the money for their tuition fees.
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/ 18 November 2005
A Namibian NGO producing comic strips to promote use of information and communications technology has won an award in the community-engagement category at the just-ended World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. The NGO, Schoolnet Namibia, exhibited at the WSIS its comic-strip project.
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/ 16 November 2005
The President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, on Wednesday attacked the United States at the opening of the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia, for monopolising the governance of the internet. Mugabe said the summit is supposed to engender confidence in internet users outside Europe and North America.
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/ 16 November 2005
At least 800 000 villages — or 30% of the world’s villages — are unconnected to any kind of information and communications technology (ICT), and this requires an investment of about -billion to rectify, said the International Telecommunications Union’s secretary general at the World Summit on Information Society in Tunisia on Tuesday.