New Internationalist, May 1st, 2001
The recent bombing of The Daily News, Zimbabwe's only independent daily newspaper, was the climax of a two-year campaign of intimidation of the press by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF Government. It was a stark reminder to the outside world of the sorry state of Zimbabwe. Any hope of its becoming the `Switzerland of Africa', as was predicted by some when Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980, has long faded. Instead an increasingly coercive regime is leading the country to the brink of collapse.
Mugabe, once internationally praised for his reconciliatory policies, is today perceived as er...
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