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 violence during protests and...
Media freedom monitoring
Journalists meet police chiefs over harassment
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.
Harassment of journalist and family following release
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 of the Zimbabwe Republic Police...
MISA requests meeting with police commissioner-general
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 practitioners. Chinaka and...
ZBC news crew vehicle torched
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, freelance journalist Lucy Yasin was...
Police assault journalists
Members of the riot police on 3 August 2016 assaulted freelance journalists Lawrence Chimunhu, Christopher Mahove and Tendai Musiya as they covered demonstrations against the Zimbabwe government’s plans to introduce bond notes in the wake of the deteriorating...
MISA Zimbabwe blasts govt. for trampling on media freedoms
By Mlondolozi Ndlovu The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) - Zimbabwe chapter has slammed the Zimbabwean government for its failure to abide by freedom of expression and access to information. In its latest bulletin on media freedom violations covering the...
State opposes bail for media rights group members
MMPZ advocacy officers Fadzai December and Molly Chimhanda, and the Gwanda chairperson of MMPZ’S Public Information Rights Forum Committee Gilbert Mabusa, are all being charged in connection with a civic education meeting held there last month. The State claims that...
NewsDay journalists freed on bail
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 spending a night in police custody. Sifikile...