WAS the decision of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe to refuse to register its newspapers with the Media and Information Commission a tactical mistake? It would seem so from last week's Supreme Court ...

GOVERNMENT’s announcement that it is ready to pull the plug on one of the most notorious vestiges of former President Robert Mugabe’s regime, the Access to ...

MEDIA stakeholders virtually shredded a Press Freedom and Transparency Bill proposed by a local legislator saying it fell short of addressing the concerns of media practitioners. The private Bill, ...

In ruling that the Media and Information Commission (MIC) was “improperly constituted” the Administrative Court virtually wrote the obituary of the Access to ...

(MISA/IFEX) – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has signed into law the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Amendment Act (AIPPA Amendment), which ...

As a daily source of information in Zimbabwe, there is still no alternative to the state-run broadcaster the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) and the state-run Herald newspaper. On January 11, ...

AIPPA has clauses that restrict and that allow access to information for citizens and for organisations. In fact, in its preamble it ably states that everyone shall have the right to information, but ...

(MISA/IFEX) – The Zimbabwean government has conceded that Section 80 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA) is unconstitutional, “The ...