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Weekly Media Update 2010-32
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday August 16th - Sunday August 22nd 2010
August 27, 2010

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The week's top stories

Media debate over the ruling of the SADC summit on Zimbabwe's power-sharing standoff intensified this week, eclipsing other contemporary issues such as the ongoing consultative phase of constitution making and developments in the contentious Chiadzwa diamonds mining saga.

The media's coverage of the constitutional outreach exercise mainly focused on the intimidation and violence characterizing the process while differences between the ZANU PF arm of government and a coalition of civic organizations over whom to appoint as a local focal person to monitor Zimbabwe's compliance with the Kimberley Process recommendations, highlighted the latest controversy in the mining of Chiadzwa diamonds.

Other issues that attracted media attention evolved around public complaints over poor service delivery by some municipalities and the huge salary bills they were paying their top management. (See Fig. 1).

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