Harare - Zimbabwe's government has threatened to treat six journalists working for foreign media outlets as "terrorists" after accusing them of filing false reports on political violence.
The state-controlled Herald quoted a government spokesman yesterday as saying reporting by some Harare-based foreign correspondents was unacceptable and accusing six journalists and a South African-based human rights campaigner of supporting opposition "terrorists". The names were Jan Raath of the Times, Peta Thornycroft of the Daily Telegraph, Andrew Meldrum of the Guardian who also writes for The Irish Times, and Basildon Peta of the Independent, AP's Angus Shaw, Dumisani Muleya of South Africa's Business Day and the South-African based human rights campaigner, Mr Richard Carver.