{"id":7615,"date":"2012-02-03T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-02-03T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/zimbabwe-bars-unregistered-foreign-newspapers\/"},"modified":"2012-02-03T13:40:35","modified_gmt":"2012-02-03T11:40:35","slug":"zimbabwe-bars-unregistered-foreign-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwe-bars-unregistered-foreign-newspapers\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe bars unregistered foreign newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Media authority says foreign papers failed to register<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Calls on police to stop newspapers from circulating<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Nelson Banya<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE, Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe will bar all<br \/>\nunregistered foreign newspapers, its media commission said on<br \/>\nFriday, in what could be the start of a crackdown on outlets<br \/>\ncritical of President Robert Mugabe ahead of a possible election<br \/>\nthis year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The commission said some foreign newspapers had failed to<br \/>\ncomply with a 2010 directive to register with the authorities<br \/>\nand would be barred from circulation. The unregistered<br \/>\nnewspapers are published outside of the country and distributed<br \/>\nin Zimbabwe without a licence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ZMC (Zimbabwe Media Commission) has therefore resolved<br \/>\nto appeal to the relevant law-enforcement authorities to bar<br \/>\naffected papers from entrance into and circulation within<br \/>\nZimbabwe until they comply with Zimbabwe&#8217;s laws,&#8221; the ZMC said<br \/>\nin a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The move appears to be aimed at The Zimbabwean, a newspaper<br \/>\nproduced by exiles, and the Zimbabwe edition of South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nSunday Times. Both frequently run stories critical of Mugabe and<br \/>\nhis ZANU-PF party.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Susan Smuts, editor of the Sunday Times Zimbabwe edition<br \/>\nwhich is printed in Johannesburg and trucked up to Harare, said<br \/>\nthe paper was not registered.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t have an office there and when we looked at the<br \/>\nforms to register, we didn&#8217;t think it applied to us,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Media authority says foreign papers failed to register * Calls on police to stop newspapers from circulating By Nelson Banya HARARE, Feb 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe will bar all unregistered foreign newspapers, its media commission said on Friday, in what could be the start of a crackdown on outlets critical of President Robert Mugabe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-7615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}