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Weekly Media Update 2010-9
Monday March 9th - Sunday March 14th 2010
Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe (MMPZ)
April 19, 2010

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NEWS of South African President Jacob Zuma's visit to persuade Zimbabwe's coalition parties to resolve the increasing number of disputes within the alliance dominated the private media's coverage of the widely reported power-sharing quarrels during the week.

The government media however, censored news of Zuma's visit until March
15, a day before his arrival. Their reports on power-sharing emphasized ZANU PF's position that sanctions were the only outstanding issue under the Global Political Agreement (GPA); downplayed divisions in the coalition and discredited MDC concerns over the ZANU PF arm of government's unilateral actions. Although ZANU PF's controversial indigenization policy and constitutional reform issues remained topical, reports warning of imminent food shortages and the precarious state of the country's health delivery system also began to attract the media's attention. See Fig. 1.

Fig 1: Popular stories in the media

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