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	Zimbabwe's Mugabe Accuses Media of Biased Coverage IC Publications September 13, 2007 http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=africa&item=070913125743.sg16f6aj.php President Robert Mugabe on Thursday fired a broadside at western media for biased coverage of events in Zimbabwe, ignoring an adultery case involving his staunch opponent, former archbishop Pius Ncube. "If one of my own ministers does mischief and takes another person's wife, it will be carried on television and they will say this is what Mugabe's ministers are doing," Mugabe said. "It will be carried on BBC, CNN, everywhere, but let the man who speaks their language and does their work, even if he is archbishop, commit adultery they will not publish it," he said at the official launch of the country's Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) policy. "They will seek to hide it even on CNN and BBC and say nothing, absolutely nothing about it. Or if they do, it is just in passing. So let's take care." Ncube, 60, a leading critic of Mugabe resigned on Tuesday following an adultery scandal after a state newspaper published compromising pictures, alleged to depict the Bulawayo archbishop having sex with another man's wife. However Ncube, who has been head of the Bulawayo Diocese since 1998, said his resignation was intended to save the Church from further attacks and enable him to challenge the adultery charge in court in his private capacity. Mugabe said Zimbabweans should not risk being fascinated with new communication technologies, which posed risks due to the content they allowed people to access. "We have our own sphere, our own space, which we must self-determine and govern as a sovereign people. We will never be that image the British or Americans have put on BBC or CNN. We are in the middle of a fight for our heritage. "Our very space or territory is being channelled by the British... They have used propaganda and their global news networks to leverage international opinion against us." Mugabe's government has often accused the West of trying to bring about regime change in the country using "hostile" media. Many Zimbabweans have turned to foreign-based radio stations and television channels for an alternative to broadcasts by government-controlled radio and television stations.
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