Toward a one-party state
Officials of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's government have been railing against the Western press for months, charging that a steady stream of critical reports that describe increasing authoritarianism, economic decline and bloody intertribal feuding in Zimbabwe were distortions of the truth. Last week they struck back. At a meeting with the five other "frontline" black African nations that confront South Africa,* Zimbabwe won approval of a resolution banning all visits by foreign journalists who are based in South Africa, except by specific invitation. Since almost all reporting on...
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