Secretary for Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Mr Nick Mangwana said yesterday that British broadcaster Sky News is not accredited to work in Zimbabwe.
His comments come after Sky News Africa correspondent, John Sparks, reported of an alleged incident in which a man is being beaten by men wearing police and army uniforms. President Mnangagwa Said Mangwana:
We have checked our records and we have not cleared anyone from Sky for accreditation. Normally that should happen before they are even allowed to come into the country. During the disturbances we cleared dozens of journalists but Sky News did not apply. It’s strange why they chose not to obey the law because everyone else from British Media such as ITN, BBC, Financial Times did things the correct way and they never faced any problems. We even granted them interviews when they asked for same.
Mangwana noted said Sky News’ report is not balanced because they had not sought comment from Government before they broadcast their allegations.
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Isn’t this the whole point of independent journalism? And aren’t journalists protected under ‘freedom of the press’, to share and educate people on current affairs? So, no, nobody should need “clearance” for reporting current affairs; if something has happened that should be shared with the public then it’s good of Sky news to report this freely and independently. All news outlets should be able to do the same.
What does this mean now Mr Mangwana? Those 3 officers are off the hook since the Skynews operated illigal?
My foot, is the issue about accreditayion or blatant police and army abuse. Be serious Mangwana.
What else can we expect from Nick ….absolutely zero
If sky news breaks the law to display the abuse of human rights by the army and the ZRP .If really Nick and team are powerful they should punish UK for that ….
Alas they are only good at brutalizing innocent unarmed civilians and they want to keep it hidden ….we are not in 303BC Mangwana kkkkk
Well it appears that its actually Nick who is unbalanced mental wise.
What nerve!
I don’t think you read the article properly. This not whether what happened is wrong or right. It simply accreditation.
Do you know in the US or UK you cannot report with out it?
Please refrain from knee jerk reactions, this is what is contributing to so much turmoil in Zim.