New govt approved newspaper in Zimbabwe features gay bashing.

Reports of unnatural practices could help to sell Mugabe's paper

author/source:Cape Times (SA)
published:Fri 7-May-2004
posted on this site:Fri 7-May-2004

Article Type : News

The lives of each president will be serialised in the first 1 035 editions of the paper. This will take readers well into 2007

Comment

By John Scott

Quite by accident, I was lucky enough to be shown a mock-up of the New Sunday Times (NST), the regional paper to be published jointly by Robert Mugabe and Sam Nujoma from July 1. It is to show these two southern African presidents in their true light to counter colonial propaganda in South African newspapers. There will be at least one picture of Mugabe and Nujoma on every page, including the death notices page to console the bereaved in their loss and to ask for their vote in the next election. But there's absolutely no truth in the rumour that Mugabe wanted to suggest they might be next in the grave if they didn't vote for him. The front-page lead will always feature the presidents' latest achievements, such as Mugabe's beating up the unpatriotic opposition and Nujoma's terrifying foreign investors. International news will form a double spread with a weekly gay-bashing page, whose reports and pictures from all over the world will give details of unnatural practices. It is expected that this page will be a major selling point.

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Later in the article, it also mentions that Ballet has been banned in Zimbabwe because it leads to "unnatural practices." (With that logic, they should ban prisons also.)

This sounds like the ideal Neo-Con paper. With just a few cosmetic changes perhaps the Washington Times could ...