By
Elizabeth Demo
MASVINGO-
Journalists and Media and Cultural Studies students from Great Zimbabwe
University (GZU) commemorated belated World Press freedom day that was held at
Charles Austin Theater on 9 May under the theme reform media laws now-for
sustainable, diverse and free media.
Speaking
at the belated World Press freedom commemorations, Movement for Democratic
Change (MDC-T) Masvingo senator Misheck Marava said that the media laws are
repressive and they curtail freedom of the media.
“Zimbabwe
media laws are repressive, journalists are striving to get information and
without journalists there is no flow of information from government to the
people,” he said.
“The rights of journalists are tempered with
the injury of one journalist is the injury of all journalists,” added the
senator.
Marava
took the opportunity to urge media practitioners to complement each other and
succeed because they have one industry of reporting.
Speaking
at the event, Masvingo mayor Hubert Fidze said that citizen journalists are
doing a good job and he encourage journalists to supply information to the people.
“It
is important for people to know what is happening in the city, go out and give
people the news and ask us what people want to know,” he said.
The
event was also attended by the chairperson of Media Institute for Southern
Africa Masvingo region Golden Maunganidze, legal practitioner Martin Mureri and
Joel Mukusha Great Zimbabwe University lecturer.
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