PROMOTING FREE EXPRESSION IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
30 years after the signing of the landmark Windhoek Declaration, IFEX’s Reyhana Masters & David Christopher interview special guests Tabani Moyo from MISA Zimbabwe & Zoe Titus from the Namibia Media Trust on the past, present, and future challenges facing press freedom, and freedom of expression more broadly, in Africa.
Check out our Africa Brief Special Edition in celebration of World Press Freedom Day 2021!
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) was founded in 1996. Its work focuses on promoting, and advocating for, the unhindered enjoyment of freedom of expression, access to information and a free, independent, diverse and pluralistic media.
The Ministry of Justice Legal and Parliamentary Affairs on 16 November 2021 said Cabinet has approved principles aimed at amending the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act to criminalise citizens’ unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments. This was...
We are happy to release a report on the Impact of Covid 19 on media sustainability in Southern Africa. The focus of the research was to: i. Highlight the background circumstances in which the media has been operating in prior to Covid 19, which include the challenges...
MISA Zimbabwe National Governing Council (NGC) chairperson Golden Maunganidze was re-elected for another three-year term during the media freedom advocacy and lobby organisation’s annual general meeting held in Harare on 30 October 2021. Maunganidze beat former...
We are happy to release a report on Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Laws in the SADC Region: Implications on Human Rights. Below is an excerpt from the Executive Summary; This report focuses on enacted and proposed cybersecurity and cybercrime laws in the SADC region and...
