‘Zim’s media landscape remains treacherous’

FORTY-ONE years after independence, Zimbabwe’s media landscape remains treacherous with independent journalists being subjected to harassment by State security agents, poorly paid and denied the freedom to exercise their rights, freelance scribe Hopewell Chin’ono has said.

Speaking in an interview with SABC on Sunday on the state of the media in Zimbabwe, Chin’ono said: “The economy is dead, which means that the media institutions, particularly the private Press, is not able to pay journalists competitive salaries, and because of that, they become compromised.

“We have seen a lot of repression, a lot of arrests, and intimidation against journalists, something that was unheard of between 1980 and 1990.

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