Chibaba’s Death Costs Two Herald Journalists’ Jobs.
22 February 2021
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By James Gwati-Two journalists at the state-controlled Zimbabwean mass media company, Zimpapers have been fired for failing to edit a comment on the late Zimdancehall musician, Soul Jah Love’s story in one of the Zimpapers’ daily hard copies which wished the death of an undisclosed Zanu PF big wig.

Chief sub-editor Washington Rungano Gwanzura and his junior Tinashe Chuma got the marching orders at the weekend for breaching the company’s Code of Conduct and Grievance Procedure.

Gwanzura was accused of breaching the said act by “clearing a copy for printing with an unacceptable statement in the feedback column”, while Chuma was alleged to have extracted an ‘unacceptable’ article from Twitter and filed it for publication.

“In the meantime please be advised that you are barred from setting foot at Herald House until investigations are completed,”read part of the letter signed by Rosental Mutakati, the company’s Production Editor.

A reader had written a condolence message in memory of the late Soul Jah Love which ‘prayed’ for the death of an undisclosed member of the Zanu PF presidium.

The two gatekeepers failed to notice the comment which was published in the H-Metro edition of February 19 2021 on the Feedback Column.