Tafataona P. Mahoso dubbed "the Media Hangman" was the controversial and vitriolic chairman of the Media and Information Commission, an organ that was created by Jonathan Moyo to control the media in Zimbabwe, pursuant of AIPPA.
Career
AIPPA gives him unlimited and boundless and complete powers to oversee the media in Zimbabwe, especially the print media. The Tribune
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He has fought to deny license to Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, publishers of the Daily News. He writes a weekly column in the Sunday Mail, which he regularly uses to support government policies on one hand and to attack perceived enemies of the state on the other hand.
Politics
He was replaced by Chinondidyachii Mararike in early 2008 when a judge determined that he was unfit to perform his duties as the chairman of Ministry of Information and Communication because he was "politically biased.". He was controversially reappointed to a Zimbabwe media board in October 2009 even though a parliamentary committee gave him low marks during an interview.
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Over the years, he has been dragged to court where he has defended provisions of AIPPA that gives the power to shut down newspapers.