ZIMBABWE / PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
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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MISA-Zimbabwe and its media partners join the rest of the world in the inaugural commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) on 28 September. The day was set aside by UNESCO...
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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.
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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15 August 2016 High Court judge Justice Priscilla Chigumba on 15 August 2016 gave the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) up to this Fridayt o locate or make a sworn statement on the whereabouts of a...
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State media refers online misconduct or abuse of social media as cyber-terrorism. That's not correct.
On 20 July 2016 the constitutional court clarified that it was mandatory for Zimbabweans in possession of a gadget capable of receiving broadcast services to pay ZBC license fees. The ruling was made in a...
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MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert 20 June 2016 Albert Masaka a journalist with the weekly Standard newspaper was on 18 June 2016 reportedly assaulted by ruling Zanu PF youths who were on the rampage in Harare’s dormitory...
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MISA-Zimbabwe Communiqué 19 May 2016 The African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights’ (ACHPR) chairperson Commissioner Pansy Tlakula on 19 May 2016 urged media organisations to push for implementation of the government-sanctioned Information and Media...
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MISA-Zimbabwe Communiqué Harare, 17 May 2016 MISA- Zimbabwe on 16 May 2016 hosted a dinner for the Chairperson of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) Commissioner Pansy Tlakula in Harare during which...
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