BULAWAYO - In an alleged affront to media freedom, Zimbabwe Revenue Authority at the Beitbridge Border Post confiscated thousands of copies of a weekly Zimbabwean newspaper, The ZimStar, last week. Officials, who are believed to have been working in cahoots with the Central Intelligence Organisation officers, confiscated the newspaper under the pretext that the publishers had not paid duty.
Zimbabwean newspapers no longer pay duty to the countrys tax collector after Finance Minister Tendai Biti removed the tax that foreign newspapers entering Zimbabwe paid.
Sources from the newspaper said this was the second such violation on the newspaper after it published stories doomed to be too critical of Zanu (PF).
About 2 000 copies were taken and this affected our readers last week, said an official at The ZimStar. The ZimStar is published in South Africa and owned by a consortium of business people in that country, some whom are Zimbabwean.
Post published in: News