ZIMBABWE: Kingsley Sibanda, "You feel like a bandit fighting a sitting government"

HARARE Thursday, November 20, 2008 (IRIN) - All Zimbabwean journalists are required to register with the state-appointed media board that vets applicants. Kingsley Sibanda (not his real name), 30, is struggling to survive as an unaccredited freelance journalist writing for foreign publications. "I was last employed formally as a journalist in 2003, when the newspaper I worked for, the Daily News, was closed down by the government, which accused it of operating without a licence. Since then I...