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Extracted from Weekly Media Update 3/2009
Monday
January 19th - Sunday January 25th January
Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ)
January 30, 2009
The private
online agencies also prioritized rising domestic and international
concern over SADC's failure to break the power-sharing deadlock
(Fig 5).
Fig
5: Topical news distribution in the online news agencies
| Agency |
Political
deal |
Budget
& financial issues |
Economic
decay |
Health
& cholera |
Human
rights abuses |
| ZimOnline |
11 |
0 |
6 |
3 |
3 |
| The Zimbabwe
Times |
9 |
1 |
2 |
0 |
2 |
| New Zimbabwe.com |
6 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
| Zimdaily |
5 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Total |
31 |
1 |
11 |
3 |
6 |
The online agencies
also highlighted intensifying regional and international disquiet
over Mugabe's culpability in the political stalemate.
And they painted
a grim picture of Zimbabwe's economic and humanitarian crises.
ZimOnline (22/1)
described as slim chances that schools would successfully open as
planned citing government's failure to pay teachers in foreign
currency.
It quoted PTUZ
secretary general Raymond Majongwe confirming that government had
paid teachers ZW$29 trillion, equivalent to US$10, for their January
salaries, a figure he described as an "insult" and a
"mockery".
These agencies
carried updates of human rights violations by the State, which emanated
mostly from the abduction and subsequent court appearances of rights
activist Jestina Mukoko and other MDC-T supporters.
Fig
6: Online agencies - Voice distribution
| Publication
|
Govt |
ZANU
PF |
MDC |
Alt |
Foreign
diplomats |
Unnamed |
| ZimOnline |
2 |
1 |
6 |
7 |
4 |
2 |
| The Zimbabwe
Times |
4 |
0 |
5 |
6 |
3 |
1 |
| New Zimbabwe.com |
2 |
1 |
3 |
5 |
2 |
1 |
| Zimdaily |
0 |
1 |
4 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
What
they said . . .
"The key
conflict areas need to be resolved . . . We don't want to
go into the government as a ritual" - MDC-T spokesman
Nelson Chamisa confirming his party's rejection of SADC's
proposal. (SW Radio Africa, 20/1)
"There
was an urgent need to fill the two positions in question. The Governor
of the RBZ has been playing a leading role in fighting illegal sanctions
that Zimbabwe is wilting under . . . In the case of the Attorney-General,
there has been an increase in banditry and insurgency . . . "
- Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa defending President Mugabe's
unilateral appointment of the RBZ governor and the Attorney-General.
(The Herald, 20/1)
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