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Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe’s blogosphere has virtually been deflated by threats of new legislation allowing government to surreptitiously spy on people’s cyber actvities. Their numerous voices have been silenced leaving a marked void in the chronicling of the one the world’s worst crises. Please keep this troubled nation’s valiant bloggers in your minds and prayers. Few bloggers still persist, here are some of the issues they have been reporting;

After an acrimonious split, Zimbabwe’s opposition MDC is steeped into further controversy after a ghastly attack on Gertrude (Trudy) Stevenson. Stevenson, who has aligned herself with Arthur Mutambara’s “pro-senate” faction, is the MP for Harare north constituency on an MDC ticket. Zimpundit is sickened by the attack.

The Bearded Man posts and discusses headlines on Zimbabwe everyday.

D.R.C>:Carl at Because we’re here boy no one else; just us shares his version of elections related developments. These include; increased patrols by the airforce, the arrival of EU troops, a war threat by a presidential candiate if the elections don’t go well, and relief organizations cutting back their operations in the country.

Meanwhile Fleurdafrique contempletes whether the elections will be just another historical event or if they will be democratic at all:

Should I sit here and say “well at least we’re having elections”? What’s the point of having them if it’s clear who’s running the show?

Somebody is clearly taking a piss.

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posted by Zimpundit on 07.19.06 @ 11:13 am | |  edit

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[…] This in the midst of a further crackdown by that idiot Mugabe on online communications, according to Zimbabwean Pundit. As we reported on the again-no-longer-accessible Civiblog-hosted Committee to Protect Bloggers archive, Mugabe enlisted Chinese help last year in blocking pirate radio stations. (Here is a Reporters Without Borders report.) The same censorship experts are possibly assisting in the online crackdown. […]

By Blogswana » Sokwanele is Incomunicado on 07.19.06 3:04 pm e

Kramer auto Pingback[…] Sokwanele Missing in Action? Update: The Ladies and Gentlement of Sokwanele’s “This is Zimbabwe” are back.***I just found out from Sokari at Black Looks that Zimbabwe’s Sokwenle group has neither posted on their blog, This is Zimbabwe, nor on the Sokwanele site, for six weeks.Not only that, they do not answer their email.This in the midst of a further crackdown by that idiot Mugabe on online communications, according to Zimbabwean Pundit. As we reported on the again-no-longer-accessible Civiblog-hosted Committee to Protect Bloggers archive, Mugabe enlisted Chinese help last year in blocking pirate radio stations. (Here is a Reporters Without Borders report.) The same censorship experts are possibly assisting in the online crackdown.If you know what’s going on with Sokwanele, please tell us.Tags: Sokwanele, Zimbabwe, online_censorship, threatened_bloggers […]

By Morpheme Tales: July 2006 on 11.24.06 9:29 pm e

Kramer auto Pingback[…] This in the midst of a further crackdown by that idiot Mugabe on online communications, according to Zimbabwean Pundit. As we reported on the again-no-longer-accessible Civiblog-hosted Committee to Protect Bloggers archive, Mugabe enlisted Chinese help last year in blocking pirate radio stations. (Here is a Reporters Without Borders report.) The same censorship experts are possibly assisting in the online crackdown. […]

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