"Such kinds of threats have been common from the Registrar of Newspapers, whom the minister uses as a means to enforce self-censorship," the chairman of the Tanzania Editors' Forum, Absalom Kibanda, told me. 
“Aina hii ya vitisho imekuwa jambo la kawaida kusikia kutoka kwa Msajili wa Magazeti, ambaye waziri wa habari humtumia kama chombo cha kuhakikisha waandanishi wanachuja na kujizuia kuandika habari fulani wao wenyewe,” mwenyekiti wa Jukwaa la Wahariri Tanzania, Absalom Kibanda, aliniambia.