WikiLeaks: Foe or friend to open society?

There was furore in Zimbabwe’s political circles when WikiLeaks, an international non-profit organisation that publishes submissions of private, secret and classified media from anonymous news sources, news leaks, and whistleblowers, published classified US State Department diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe.

The leaks made news headlines and reflected, more than anything else, biases in editorial stances of state and privately-owned media outlets.

In spite of WikiLeak’s founder Julian Assange’s belief that total transparency is for the good of all people, the impact of the spillage of US secrets has been controversial to say the least.

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