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Mw. Newspaper banned

  1. Posted on Saturday 30 October 2010 - 11:06
    Mabvuto kambuwe
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    BY.Mabvuto Kambuwe ,Africanews reporter ,lilongwe ,Malawi.

    Malawi government has banned with immediate effect the publication of most popular newspaper, the Weekend Times saying it was operating without being registered.
    Acting director of the National Archives Joe Thaulo said the paper has been banned because it did not register with the organisation.

    “Weekend Times has been circulating close to a year now without registering with National Archives of Malawi,” he said. “We are taking stock of all papers that are circulating.”

    Thaulo hinted that more newspapers will be shut down.


    The ban comes into effect after the paper had published a foreign news report which claimed that wife of Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe, has a love affair with head of Zimbabwe’s central bank Gedion Gono.

    Meanwhile, Blantyre Newspapers Limited (BNL) the publishers through its lawyers are processing papers to secure an injunction against the ban.

    Mugabe and 'disgraced' wife who is cheating him with a younger man

    Weekend Times contributes about 15 percent of BNL revenue and its circulation is at 14000 copies every Friday, the fastest growing newspaper circulation in the country.

    Headlined ’Disgraced-Mugabe’s wife does it with his best friend”, the sensational Friday afternoon paper quoted unnamed news sources, saying Grace Mugabe and Gono would meet as often as three times a month either at her dairy farm or in expensive hotels in neighbouring South Africa.

    The story which has been hitting headlines in international media say Grace Mugabe — who is 41 years younger than Zimbabwe’s 86-year-old president — has spent the past five years cuckolding him with Gono.

    Mugabe finally found out about the affair in July when his sister Sabina revealed the scandal on her deathbed, it was reported.

    Since then his most-trusted bodyguard Cain Chademana — who is said to have told the furious president that he knew of the affair but thought it best to keep
    the secret.

    Meanwhile Media council of Malawi and National media institute of Southern Africa Namisa are yet to issue their statements on tthe matter.

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