whom you are serving,” said the minister.
He joins a growing list of government ministers who have recently threatened journalists in a vain attempt to maintain a stranglehold on the media and frighten journalists into submission.
Legislation passed since 2000 has thrown an international media black-out curtain over Zimbabwe. All foreign journalists are banned from visiting the country and locals have to be licenced.
Dozens of local reporters have been arrested, some several times, and several foreign journalists deported.
Jokonya was addressing a press conference with an official from the Washington-based Pan-African Liberation Organisation, who was on a fact-finding visit. – Staff reporter
14.6.2006
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Jokonya threatens media
HARARE - Zimbabwe's information minister, Tichaonya Jokonya, threatened journalists at a press conference earlier this week and said traitors would die.
"The end of a traitor is always death. The unfortunate thing about a traitor is that you are killed by both your own people and the person
"The end of a traitor is always death. The unfortunate thing about a traitor is that you are killed by both your own people and the person