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Journalist wins case - 36 years later

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    A Malawian journalist, Boniface Masonga, recently won a case in which he was challenging his dismissal from the Publications Section of the Ministry of Information in 1964. According to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Ombudsman Enock Chibwana directed the Ministry of Information to pay Masonga his salaries backdated to 1964. Masonga was arrested in December 1964 when he went to Lilongwe to cover a Malawi Congress Party (MCP) annual convention on allegations that he had distributed seditious letters for people to rebel against the MCP in Zomba. He was convicted in 1965 to three years imprisonment with hard labour.

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