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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 ...
Number of unique mobile subscribers in Africa surpasses half a billion
More than half a billion people across Africa are now subscribed to mobile services as the continent continues to migrate rapidly to mobile broadband networks, reveals a new GSMA study. ‘The Mobile...
Achieving the right cybersecurity balance
A worldwide explosion of apps and e-commerce sites has created a disjointed control over data that is shared between organisations, leading to security breaches. Furthermore, personal information...
Daily News journalist assaulted at Zanu PF headquarters
MISA-Zimbabwe Media Alert 27 July 2016 Daily News journalist Mugove Tafirenyika was on 27 July 2016 reportedly assaulted by Zanu PF supporters while covering a meeting at the party’s...
Completion of digitisation and licensing of community radios in limbo
On July 21 2016 ministers of Finance and Media Information and Broadcasting Services, Patrick Chinamasa and Dr. Christopher Mushowe, respectively, appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio...
Citizens should pay ZBC fees – ConCourt
The Constitutional Court (ConCourt) has ruled that citizens should pay the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) licence fees. In its ruling the ConCourt said citizens were not being asked to pay...
Sky News crew deported from Zimbabwe
A Sky news crew was this morning, deported from the country allegedly for working without accreditation. The two, who include South African based correspondent, Alex Crawford and a cameraman were...
Statement on government threats to regulate abuse of social media
MISA-Zimbabwe notes with great concern escalating threats by government to “regulate” social media in a statement issued by the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe...
MISA Zimbabwe decries cutting off WhatsApp in Zimbabwe
As MISA-Zimbabwe monitors the enjoyment of media freedom and freedom of expression during the ongoing protest dubbed ShutDown Zimbabwe, it is gravely concerned with the apparent disabling of the...