MUNN Marketing, the distributors of three Alpha Media Holdings' three newspapers and several other leading South African publications, says attacks against its vendors by Zanu PF supporters and suspected state agents have intensified countrywide.

Nick Ncube, the company's operations manager said vendors reported that people who were seen buying NewsDay, The Standard and the Zimbabwe Independent were being harassed.

He said many vendors were now reluctant to sell the papers fearing for their lives.

On Friday some of the vendors in Harare's Nkwame Nkrumah and Park Street had their papers torn by the thugs who told them never to display them again.