But during recent 60th anniversary celebrations of communist China's founding, several reports in state controlled newspapers revived the old myth.Another dubious assertion is being visibly perpetuated.
James Sabau, a spokesman for the police force, which is part of the security services controlled by Mr. Mugabe's party, was quoted in Monday's state-controlled newspaper as saying that the 46 people in custody were accused of participating in an illegal political meeting where they watched videos "as a way of motivating them to subvert a constitutionally elected government".
And the state-controlled newspaper has reminded voters of Mr. Mugabe's accomplishments over the years.
A state-controlled newspaper in 2005 said 33,935 households in 231 villages would be moved out.
"So to take the 2-D version off the screen is quite normal," he said, according to China Daily, a state-controlled newspaper.
An editorial in The Sunday Mail, a state-controlled newspaper, accused Mr. Zuma of duplicity and dishonesty and called him a puppet of the West.
In August a state-controlled newspaper said that experiments in the trading of rural construction-land were about to be launched around the country.
"President Mugabe will only leave office if he sees it fit or dies," a state-controlled newspaper, The Herald, quoted Brig.
But the China Daily, a state-controlled newspaper, quoted an unnamed expert as saying that two died after a disease outbreak this year.
In January a state-controlled newspaper, Southern Weekend, tried to publish a new-year message entitled "The Chinese dream: a dream of constitutionalism".
A brief front-page article arguing the merits of the project appeared Monday in a state-controlled newspaper, Chengdu Business News.
