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In April 2009, the coalition government planned to review media restrictions, including the removal of bans for some foreign news agencies and to create a new media commission to issue licences. ZANU–PF Minister of Justice Patrick Chinamasa said there was an "agreement to review the media policy so as to create a political climate where ...
The influential Daily News, which regularly published criticism of the government, was shut down in 2002, however its director Wilf Mbanga started The Zimbabwean soon after to continue challenging the Mugabe regime. [1] The first daily independent Zimbabwean daily newspaper, following Daily News, NewsDay, started publishing
The ZANU–PF party has historically been dominant in Zimbabwe politics. [1] The party, which was led by Robert Mugabe from 1980 to 2017, has used the powers of the state to intimidate, imprison and otherwise hobble political opposition in Zimbabwe, as well as use state funds and state media to advance the interests of the party. [1]
Zimbabwe’s main opposition party on Tuesday boycotted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's State of the Nation address following his disputed reelection in August, revealing the widening political ...
Zimbabwe African National Union – Ndonga [5] Zimbabwe African People's Union (ZAPU) Zimbabwe African People's Union – Federal Party; Zimbabwe First Party; Zimbabwe National Democratic Party; Zimbabwe National Revival Party - ZNRP [6] Zimbabwe Partnership for Prosperity - Kasiyamhuru; Zimbabwe Youth in Alliance; Zimbabwe Communist Party [5] [7]
Joseph Chinotimba (born 1958), political figure associated to the ZANU–PF party Jeremiah Chirau (1923–1985), leader of the Zimbabwe United People's Organisation Herbert Chitepo (1923–1975), leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union until his assassination
Zimbabwe has an embassy in Pretoria and a consulate general in Johannesburg. In recent years, following the political crisis in the country, the ex-president Thabo Mbeki mediated with the MDC and Zanu PF to form a unity government, and often remained silent on the issues in Zimbabwe, which drew criticism. [154]
Zimbabwe is a one party dominant state, the dominant party being the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front. Opposition parties are permitted, including the MDC Alliance led by Nelson Chamisa and the MDC–T led by Thokozani Khuphe , both formations of the original Movement for Democratic Change created in 1999.