The Association of Zimbabwe Journalists reports that the media has been ordered by the government not to carry advertisements for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) .
The Zimbabwean government has also classed all foreign newspapers, magazines and periodicals as luxury goods and imposed 40 per cent import duty. Newspapers from South Africa, which many Zimbabweans rely on for news, would be prohibitively expensive, the Media Institute of South Africa claims.
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