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Zimbabwe: What Goes On Inside the Mugabes' Living Room?

27 July 2013

1st TV bills itself as "Zimbabwe's first independent television station". Based in South Africa, the station began broadcasting on 19 July. The launch "at least 12 days preceding Zimbabwe's harmonized election on 31 July 2013 sent a lot of tongues wagging," wrote a Zimbabwean blogger recently.

The country's media landscape has long been dominated by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), run by the state - a state that's been headed by President Robert Mugabe for the last 33 years.

Franco-Burkinabé cartoonist Damien Glez began his career drawing for the satirical weekly Le Journal du Jeudi. In 2001, he and fellow cartoonists created the monthly Pan-African satirical Le Marabout.

Glez's cartoons are regularly published in Le Journal du Jeudi (Burkina Faso), Vita Magazine (Italy), Afronline (Italy), Chorus (France), World Policy Journal (US), Continental (France-Africa), La Mèche (France), Courrier international (France-Africa) and Jeune Afrique (France-Africa).

Glez is a member of the Cartooning for Peace foundation.

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