Berichten uit Zimbabwe 0.2: Over 'vrije onafhankelijke pers'

Voor vandaag is het belangrijkste nieuws misschien wel dat de Daily News schrijft (oppositie krant par excellence, ook wel smalend ‘Daily Noise' geheten) onder de titel: "Zimbabwe gone to the dogs, says Smith"! Zo weet meteen iedereen waar de oppositie zijn mosterd haalt, met name bij Ian Smith, prominent fascist en racist, die er altijd prat op ging dat 'zijn zwarten de gelukkigste zwarten waren van de hele wereld'. Het artikel eindigt met de paragraaf: "The black polling officials standing next to Smith as he answered reporters' questions kept a polite silence".

Dit is Zimbabwe ten voeten uit, gelijk welke blanke kan gelijk wat zeggen of gelijk wat doen (biev. Smith die nog altijd vrijelijk rond loopt in Zimbabwe, overal vertellende dat er hier helemaal geen vrijheid is en ‘the country has gone to the dogs...'

"Ian Smith voted in Zimbabwe's presidential election on Sunday and said the country had gone to the dogs.
"I mean the country is in chaos, it's bankrupt, there's really no freedom,", the spry 82-year old, who still drives himself around Harare's leafy avenues, said after voting at the Alexandra Park School polling station".
"It was clear that his vote had not gone to President Mugabe, who fought a bush war against Smith's white minority government and then romped home in the 1980 elections, which brought independence.
"You've got to straighten things out, get rid of the people who are corrupt, inept and who drag the country down.
"If we have a change then once again this can be one of the greatest countries of the world, instead of being what it is now, which is despised by the rest of the world," Smith said.
"The ballot of Ian Douglas Smith, born in the small mining town of Shurugwi on 8 April, 1919, definitely went to Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)". - Reuter bericht in the Daily News van 12 Maart 2002

Dat spreekt toch boekdelen? Over de 'vrije onafhankelijke pers', over de belangen en de mensenrechten die zij verdedigen!

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