MISA-Zimbabwe is however concerned that the licensing simply expands media directly under state control.
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MISA Zimbabwe files constitutional application against criminal defamation
MISA Zimbabwe and senior Zimbabwean journalists on filed an application with the Constitutional Court on 25 February 2015 seeking an order for criminal defamation to be declared unconstitutional in terms of the new Constitution. In its application filed by lawyer...
MISA Zimbabwe World Radio Day 2015
This year’s celebrations run under the theme: Youth and innovation in radio.
New MISA Zimbabwe advocacy committee members for Mutare
Chairperson, secretary-general and committee members were elected for the next three years.
Southern Africa’s most open and most secretive government and public institutions in 2014
From Sunday 28 September, Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Chapter offices have been marking International Right to Information Day across the region by announcing the recipients of this year’s Golden Key and Golden Padlock Awards. This is the sixth year MISA...
MISA Zimbabwe marks Right to Know Day
MISA Zimbabwe notes with great concern that as the world commemorates the Right to Know Day celebrated annually on 28 September, Zimbabwe is still to enact a democratic access to information law as demanded for under the new Constitution. This year’s event is being...
SW Radio Africa closes after 13 years
MISA Zimbabwe bemoans the closure of the pioneer shortwave radio station, SW Radio Africa, after 13 years of affording Zimbabweans, particularly those residing in marginalised rural communities, access to diverse views and opinions. The station, which broadcast from...
Zimbabwe tightens police access to telecommunications data
The Parliamentary Legal Portfolio Committee withdrew its adverse report in the National Assembly on 10th July 2014 following the repeal of the unconstitutional Statutory Instrument (SI) 142/2013 which dealt with establishment and access of telecommunications...
Swaziland editor, lawyer re-arrested after release from jail
New York, April 10, 2014-Swaziland police on Wednesday re-arrested veteran editorBheki Makhubu and human rights lawyer Thulani Maseko three days after they had been released from prison, according to news reports. The two, who were first jailed on March 18 and held until Sunday, had written articles that criticized Swaziland”s chief justice and another judge”s handling of a case.
MISA Zimbabwe media diversity journalism competition
As part of the Media Diversity Campaign, MISA-Zimbabwe will be running a journalistic contest hinged on coverage that promotes media freedom, diversity and access to information from October 30, 2013 to November 21, 2013. The contest is open to print, electronic and...