7DQ]DQLD Acting CEO). The case is still ongoing. But one of the landmark cases involving newspapers for year 2012 was the indefinite ban of the local weekly, MwanaHalisi newspaper, by the government for publishing a story on the alleged kidnapping and torture of the Medical Doctors Association president, Dr. Stephen Ulimboka. In its three publications – no.302 publication of Wednesday, July 11-18, 2012, no.303 of Wednesday 18-24, 2012, and no.304 of Wednesday July 25-01, 2012 – it ran a story concerning the kidnapping and torture of Dr Ulimboka. The article alleged that the person in question was a government agent. In 2012, the Ethics Committee of the MCT sat three times for arbitration of complaints. The MCT successfully mediated four complaints at its level, including two from an accomplished businessperson, Ali Mufuruki, who filed complaints against ITV and Channel 10 television stations. Others successfully mediated were those filed by SUMATRA versus Taifa Letu, and one by a prominent lawyer, Ms. Hawa Sinare, versus MwanaHALISI newspaper. According to its annual report last year, MCT handled 28 complains in 2012, 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\" including those which were determined at the Ethics Committee level, Secretariat level and others which were filed and later formally withdrawn or just not pursued, by complainants, for loss of interest or other reasons. Differences between government/ political leaders and journalists are directly linked to whatever they write. There are those who write what the leaders want and there are those who stand by their profession. Those who say anything that doesn’t find favour in the eyes or ears of those in power are hated. “Press violations are widespread and sometimes they are committed with the aid of fellow journalists”, says Fredrick Mgoi, Kwanza Jamii’s News Editor in Iringa region. He says his paper gave the Development Directors in the region a free page to write their information on any development plans, projects accomplishments etc but they declined. “When we published a story on how they underperformed and the possibility of them being fired, they became furious. We had a Deputy Editor who went behind our backs and apologised to the Directors saying that it wasn’t him who wrote the story. It was later on that we learnt of his involvement in soliciting adverts for other newspapers from the