Zimbabwe: Toronto journalist threatened

Zimbabwe: Toronto Journalist Threatened Over Article On Political ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
CJFE is concerned by reports that Toronto-based journalist Innocent Madawo has received threatening phone calls. Earlier this week, Madawo had written an article on the subject of the political situation in Zimbabwe as it approaches elections in March. Madawo's opinion piece was sent out by e-mail on January 7, 2008, to journalistic colleagues and was published on the website of the London-based Zimbabwean independent radio station, SWRadio Africa ( http://www.swradioafrica.com/pages/zimexile080108.htm ). It resulted in a phone call the next day with the warning "Mr. Madawo, you must be careful about what you write. Uchakuvarira zvinhu vausingazivi. (You will be hurt for things you don't know). Uzalimala (you will be hurt), you hear me!?" The phone call, placed to Madawo's home phone, used all three official languages of Zimbabwe (English, Ndebele and Shona) ... "I am not taking this lightly," stated Madawo, considering "the killing and torture of colleagues in Zimbabwe, the near fatal shooting of ZimOnline editor, Abel Mutsakani, in Johannesburg last year and the circulation of lists of marked Zimbabwean journalists." ...