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City Press Asked UN's Phumzile
Mlambo About Her Comments on
Zuma, UN Cut Her Answer
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Video,
en
francais, 1st
Person
UNITED NATIONS,
February 14 – UN officials are
supposedly international civil
servants, no longer involved
in and commenting on politics
in “their” country. Hours
before Jacob Zuma resigned in
South Africa, Inner City Press
asked the head of UN Women
Phumzile Mlambo about an
interview she gave the day
before, specifically on Zuma
and Thabo Mbeki. Do you take
your international civil
servant hat off? How does it
work? When the UN Department
of Public Information put up
the video of the press
conference, the audio of
Phumzile Mlambo's answer was
cut. UN video without audio here,
at 24:46. After the cut, she
said, “there's no play book
for that.” There is, at the
UN, a play book for
censorship, of the most
ham-handed kind. Inner City
Press, which has similarly
questioned UN Peacekeeping
chief Herve Ladsous serving
France, and Deputy Secretary
General Amina J. Mohammed
referring to Buhari as “my
president,” on these topics -a
and still finds itself
restricted to minders, its
long time work space
purportdly given to a no-show,
no-question Egyptian state
media Akhbar al Youm. But
cutting audio? We'll have more
on this.
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