http://raceandhistory.com/selfnews/viewnews.cgi?newsid1284765792,35087,.shtml Zimbabwe's Press free: EU
Posted: Friday, September 17, 2010
By Farirai Machivenyika
September 17, 2010 - The Herald
INCOMING European Commissioner to Zimbabwe Mr Aldo Dell'Ariccia yesterday acknowledged the existence of a free Press in Zimbabwe and pledged to normalise strained relations during his term here.
Speaking after presenting his credentials to President Mugabe at State House, Ambassador Dell'Ariccia exp-ressed confidence that Zimbabwe-EU dialogue would achieve the desired results.
"I have been in this country for the past eight days and what I can tell you is that there is a Press that is free…
During Zanu-PF administration, many people with help from Western funds were able to set up newspapers.
The EU has supported UK and US driven sanctions against Zimbabwe. But the EU rejected the call of the UK PM, Gordon Brown, when he demanded that Mugabe be refused entry to an EU-African Union summit a few years ago. African nations said they would boycott the summit if the EU bowed to Brown’s demands.
Despite the propaganda of the Western press, African nations regarded Zimbabwe’s elections as expressions of the will of the people.
The most important issue concerning Zimbabwe is that the Anglo-American establishment wanted to remove the elected leadership of Zimbabwe and replace it with what they regarded as a puppet. They closed off the normal sources of credit for a government. They engineered an economic crisis. They financed a political party and the union movement. They created propaganda and invented stories of oppression. Yet, they failed to take over a relatively powerless African government.
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18.09.2010 10:57
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21.09.2010 08:25
MUGABE VOTED HISTORY'S THIRD-GREATEST AFRICAN
August 25 2004 at 05:36PM
London - Zimbabwe's controversial President Robert Mugabe was voted the third-greatest African of all time, topped only by South Africa's Nelson Mandela and former Ghanaian president Kwame Nkrumah, in a survey for New African magazine announced Wednesday.
Mugabe, widely criticised outside Zimbabwe for stifling dissent and crippling the economy of his once prosperous southern African nation, was an "interesting" choice because "a high-profile campaign in the media has painted him in bad light", the New African wrote.
The London-based magazine said responses flooded in after the survey was launched last December to nominate the top 100 most influential Africans or people of African descent.
Heroes of independence movements in Africa and African-American figures in the United States figure prominently on the list.
Lumumba, Congo's first post-colonial prime minister, ranks sixth, followed by US civil rights leader Martin Luther King.
Pele, the legendary Brazilian soccer star, comes in 17th, followed by Jamaican reggae singer Bob Marley, numbering among those called "Diasporans" by New African.
Radical civil rights leader Malcolm X, at ninth, is a rank above United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan, from Ghana, who comes just ahead of the US boxer Muhammad Ali.
Few women made the cut. The highest-ranked female, at 12th, is Winnie Mandela, former wife of the South African president. Others include the dynamic duo of tennis, American sisters Venus and Serena Williams (together ranked 73rd), and ancient Egyptian queen Nefertiti at number 81.
The magazine noted that most of the top 100 were from Africa's post-colonial period. "Have people forgotten Africa's history? Must this worry us, as a people?" it asked.
The list appears in the August-September issue of New African, which has a circulation of roughly 30 000 across dozens of countries. It said this was the first such survey it had carried out in a decade. - Sapa-AFP
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