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.
MISA Zimbabwe has written to the Speaker of Parliament to highlight its concerns arising from the recommittal of the Cybersecurity and Data Protection Bill to the Senate. Below is a copy of the letter sent to Parliament this morning; 4 August 2021 Honourable Advocate...
The Cybersecurity and Data Protection Bill has been recommitted in the Senate to attend to some errors in the Bill. The Bill has been recommitted in terms of Standing Order Number 158 to attend to some clauses after some errors were identified. Recommittal means the...
Internet access and affordability has been a topical issue in Zimbabwe, moreso in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic which has increased the need and use of digital tools and platforms, to access information and communicate. It is against this background that MISA...
MISA Zimbabwe has made two submissions to the third cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on Zimbabwe, where it noted improvements in the legislative environment, but decried clawback provisions in proposed new laws that have the effect of infringing on freedom...
