MISA Zimbabwe’s Mutare Advocacy Committee, represented by chairperson Kenneth Matimaire, recently held a meeting with police in the eastern border town of Mutare during which they discussed the safety of…
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Introduction Government, through Statutory Instrument 10 of 2021, reintroduced level 4 lockdown for 30 days starting on January 5, 2021 following a surge in COVID-19 cases. According to the government,…
291 days of the COVID Lockdown, and as at 13 January 2020, the Ministry of Health and Child Care reported that, the cumulative number of COVID-19 cases increased to 24…
The Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill [H.B. 18, 2019] was published in the Zimbabwean Government Gazette of Friday 15 May 2020 after numerous false starts, and this is an…
The government of Malawi has set 30 September 2020 as the day when its Access to Information Act comes into operation, almost three years after it was signed into law….
Police officers on 30 July 2020 raided and ransacked the home of ZimLive editor Mduduzi Mathuthu in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo reportedly looking for information on subversive materials linked…
What is the purpose of the new Bill? According to the Bill’s memorandum, the purpose of this Bill is “to consolidate cyber related offences and provide for data protection with…
The signing into law of the Freedom of Information Act as part of the processes of repealing the draconian and widely discredited Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act…
A local community radio initiative Y-Star FM has called upon the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) to license community radio stations focusing on youth affairs, saying that component was overlooked…
The Ministry of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services together with the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) embarked on an outreach programme to educate the Manama community in Gwanda on the…