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Weekly Media Review 2010-46
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday November 22nd - Sunday November 28th 2010
December 03, 2010

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Finance Minister Tendai Biti's presentation of the 2011 national budget and South African president Jacob Zuma's visit to assist the country's coalition principals resolve their prolonged political dispute attracted the media's attention this week.

ZANU PF's campaign activities also got significant coverage in the government media and the private Press (See Fig.1). While the official media promoted ZANU PF and its policies ahead of next year's proposed national elections, the privately owned papers viewed the party's campaign tactics as undermining the possibility of free and fair elections. They cited as proof ZANU PF's use of violence and hate speech against its political opponents and abuse of State resources to sustain its campaign.

The official media's coverage of the activities of the two MDC remained negative in violation of Article XIX [d] of the Global Political Agreement (GPA), which compels them to provide "balanced and fair coverage" to all the coalition parties for their "legitimate political activities". Fig 1: Topical news distribution in the media Media Budget Power sharing ZANU PF campaigns MDC activities Human rights Official Press

Fig 1: Topical news distribution in the media

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