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Zanu (PF) Launches Propaganda Jingles
Harare, - Information and Publicity Minister and Zanu (PF) political commissar Webster Shamu has ordered all ZBC's four Radio stations’ Disc Jockeys and the two television channels to play some Zanu (PF) propaganda jingles he produced for at least twice an hour per each DJ's shift.
Harare, - Information and Publicity Minister and Zanu (PF) political commissar Webster Shamu has ordered all ZBC's four Radio stations’ Disc Jockeys and the two television channels to play some Zanu (PF) propaganda jingles he produced for at least twice an hour per each DJ's shift.
The launch of the propaganda jingles is believed to be in preparation for a possible election next year.
A senior radio manager said Shamu last week Friday personally drove to Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s Pockets Hill head offices and had a meeting with radio DJs whom he handed over each a CD Titled ‘Nyatsoterera’(listern carefully) he composed with a group called Mbare Chimurenga choir.
The CD has eight songs, which encourages Zimbabweans to rally behind President Mugabe and denounces MDC-T party.
At the meeting Shamu is said to have told DJs to play each at least two songs per hour during everyone’s daily shift.
A radio shift is four hours long meaning that the all the eight songs on the CD are played on every shift.
The propaganda jingles have been rocking the country’s airwaves every 30 minutes since weekend.
“We have been ordered to comply with what the minister wants otherwise we will lose our jobs. The problem is that there are no other broadcasters in the country otherwise some of us would have marched out of this situation we are in again. We thought the formation of the inclusive government was going to bring professionalism at ZBC,”said the senior radio manager.
A senior DJ stationed at ZBC’s Mbare studios said Shamu also visited them last week and gave the same directive to all Radio Zimbabwe( formerly radio 2) and personally distributed the CDs to
each DJ.
“He emphasised on the regular play of one song called ‘Ndikusetere team’, which says the Zimbabwean team is headed by President Robert Mugabe, followed by Vice Presidents Joice Mujuru and John Nkomo only and no one comes after the three. He said this song get air play than every other song on the eight tracks CD,”said the DJ.
Shaum is also the patron of the Zimbabwe Union of Musicians.
Meanwhile, the Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe chapter says it is concerned that President Robert Mugabe did not mention the Freedom of Information Bill among the Bills to be discussed in Parliament.
President Mugabe who opened a new session of Parliament on Tuesday only talked about the Media Practitioners’ Bill, which will be among the 23 Bills that will be discussed in parliament.
The Media Practitioners Bill mooted at a media stakeholder conference last year, seeks to “repeal the part of the Access to Information and the Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), which deals with the registration of journalists and privacy issues”.
Former Deputy Information Minister Jameson Timba had earlier mentioned plans to replace AIPPA with this Bill together with the Freedom of Information Bill to try and ease the current stringent media regulations in the country.
"What is clear from his address is government’s reluctance to repeal AIPPA in its entirety as well as a raft of other repressive laws that continue to inhibit media freedom and Zimbabweans’ right to freedom of expression and access to information," said Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa-Zimbabwe)." "The address also betrays the authorities desire to maintain controls and restrictions on media activity, which have been widely condemned as inimical to media freedom."
MISA-Zimbabwe said only the repeal of AIPPA and other laws that eroded media freedom and their replacement with those compatible with the best practice in media regulation enshrined in regional and international instruments on freedom of expression will amount to genuine media reforms necessary for the democratic development of Zimbabwe.
AIPPA was enacted in 2002 to regulate media activity in the country.
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