ZIMBABWE / PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
The Media Institute of Southern Africa Zimbabwe Chapter (MISA-Zim) has told Journalists to take heed of police directives during protests to prevent being assaulted as witnessed in the past. Journalists have been victims of police...
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It is with great sorrow that the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) learned of the passing on November 2, 2016, of Jeanette Minnie. She died at the age of 61, after a bitter battle...
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Freelance journalist Tendai Mandimika was on 19 September 2016 granted bail by the High Court in Harare on charges of public violence after spending more than three weeks in police custody. Mandimika was arrested in...
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MISA Zimbabwe led a delegation of journalists and representatives of the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists and Media Alliance of Zimbabwe to meet with police chiefs in Harare.
Bulawayo based freelance journalist, Crispen Ndlovu and his family, are allegedly being harassed by unidentified men following his release on 2 September 2016. Ndlovu was arrested on 31 August, 2016 while taking pictures of members...
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MISA-Zimbabwe leaders Cris Chinaka and Kelvin Jakachira on 12 September 2016 wrote a letter to Police Commissioner-General Augustine Chihuri requesting for a meeting to discuss the “deepening conflict” between members of the police and media...
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2 September 2016 Freelance photojournalist James Jemwa was on 2 September 2016 granted $50 bail on charges of public violence by Harare magistrate Tendai Mahwe. Jemwa who had been in custody at Chikurubi Maximum Prison...
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Photojournalist Crispen Ndlovu who was reportedly severely assaulted by the police on 31 August 2016 has been admitted at a private hospital in Zimbabwe’s second largest city of Bulawayo. His lawyer Tineyi Mukweva of Abameli...
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Detained freelance photojournalist Crispen Ndlovu who was reportedly severely assaulted by the police in Bulawayo was on the morning of 1 September 2016 rushed to hospital after complaining of severe headaches and impaired vision. His...
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A Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) news crew vehicle was torched in Harare’s central business district on 24 August 2016 during a march by MDC-T youths marking the launch of a campaign dubbed #MyZimbabwe. Earlier,...
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