ZIMBABWE / PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
Government plans to converge operations of its two telecoms entities, TelOne and NetOne, in line with infrastructure sharing thrust, ICT, Postal and Courier Services minister Supa Mandiwanzira has said. Network convergence is the efficient coexistence...
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The Zimbabwean government has conceded that the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) and Broadcasting Services Act (BSA) should be replaced as they are not in sync with the new constitutional...
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The High Court on 12 February 2016 barred the media from covering proceedings in the case of four men including two soldiers charged with plotting to bomb President Robert Mugabe’s dairy farm. The Daily...
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MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert 13 January 2016 Threat to blackout foreign-based radio stations The Minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services Christopher Mushowe has urged the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to draft a bill...
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MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert 8 January 2016 Charamba threatens private media Media, Information and Broadcasting Services permanent secretary George Charamba has threatened and warned the private media against reporting the security sector dabbling in ruling...
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Nqaba Matshazi and Xolisani Ncube journalists with NewsDay charged with publishing falsehoods in breach of section 31 of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act were on 8 January 2016 granted $200 bail each after...
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The Clerk of Parliament Kennedy Chokuda has renounced earlier stringent accreditation requirements for journalists who cover parliament requiring them to be first cleared by the police. This followed severe criticism by journalists and the...
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Hearing in the constitutional application by MISA-Zimbabwe and four others seeking for an order declaring criminal defamation unconstitutional in terms of the new constitution, was on 22 July 2015 postponed to an unspecified date. This followed...
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