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Weekly Media Update 2010-42
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday October 25th - SundayOctober 31th 2010
November 05, 2010

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President Mugabe's call for the holding of national elections next June appears to have set ZANU PF and the state media it controls into election campaign mode, as evidenced in the number of stories they carried publicizing the party's activities.

The ZANU PF-controlled state media were used as platform to promote the party's policies, while suffocating news of the activities of its coalition partners.

This violated Article 19.1 (d) of the Global Political Agreement (GPA), which compels them to provide "balanced and fair coverage" to all the parties "for their legitimate political activities".

On the few occasions these media reported on the activities of the MDC groups, they either distoted statements by their leaders or quoted ZANU PF and its allies vilifying them as unfit to govern and being Western puppets.

The private media viewed ZANU PF's alleged inclusion of traditional chiefs and the military in what appeared to be a campaign strategy as an abuse of state resource and violation of Zimbabwe's Constitution. They also that it gave ZANU PF an unfair advantage over its competitors.

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