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Don't sign Cyber Bill into law: Misa
The Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe has appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa to defer signing the Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill into law following its passage in the H...Published: 08 Sep 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | by Cedric Steele
Cyber Bill revoked, undergoing tweaks
THE Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill, passed without debate in Senate last week, was revoked after it was discovered that it had an error and the Bill must now go through the committee stage an...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Cyber Bill sails through Parly Committee stage
THE Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill (2019) last Thursday sailed through the Committee Stage in the National Assembly and is now before the Parliamentary Legal Committee for scrutiny.If...Published: 05 Jul 2021 at 11:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt hunts social media offenders
IN A move which shows the government's growing concern with the rising abuse of social media in the country, authorities will treat all such cases as a threat to national security.Giving a lec...Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:19hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
MDC slams govt over social media law
THE MDC Alliance has slammed the government's plans to fast-track the Cyber Bill, which will punish those deemed to have abused social media or peddled falsehoods against the State and citizens once i...Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 19:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fast-tracks social media law
AMID rising tensions in the country, authorities plan to fast-track the Cyber Bill which will punish those deemed to have abused social media or peddled falsehoods against the State and citizens once ...Published: 29 Aug 2020 at 16:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
ICT experts propose changes to Cyber Bill
Information Communication Technology (ICT) professionals have called for a review of the Cybercrime and Cybersecurity Bill to provide for the inclusion of more independent experts in the envisaged 11-...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Stafff reporter
'Black propaganda peddled against Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe is under attack from "black propaganda" being peddled by Western forces and opposition political parties in a bid to weaken the cohesion in Government, Zanu-PF and the country's security esta...Published: 24 Jan 2019 at 07:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | 1 | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mnangagwa's cabinet approves new cyber bill
With Zimbabwe's Internet shutdown still partly in place, the Information minister says that the government has crafted a new law to curb abuse of the Internet .Zimbabweans were left with...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 11:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa calls for laws regulating social media
Developing countries should mitigate the negative effects of information proliferation by creating laws that regulate social media usage, entrenching accountability and sanctions for offenders, a Cabi...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Confidence in the financial sector
At the heart of the economy, is the financial system. And at the heart of the financial system, is the confidence in the sector. However the system is sensitive to the expectations of the unknown and ...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 11:19hrs | 3 | by Tryson G. Dube
Amendment number one ten steps backwards
The greatest undoing of the current government in the past four years has been the failure to align the laws to the new constitution.Funny excuses have been mentioned by the authorities as to ...Published: 25 Jul 2017 at 16:04hrs | | by Jacob Mafume PDP Spokesperson
Zimbabwe universities hit by cyber attacks, bitcoins ransom demanded
THE National University of Science and Technology (Nust) and the Harare Institute of Technology (HIT) allegedly suffered cyber attacks yesterday with the hackers demanding more than $6 billion to rest...Published: 22 Jun 2017 at 07:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's Cyber Bill to be enacted before elections
Government will enact the Computers and Cyber Crime Bill, which will empower it to snoop into people's phones, before the country holds the eagerly anticipated 2018 elections.Informati...Published: 19 Apr 2017 at 12:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe opens 4th session of 8th Parliament
President Robert Mugabe says the government remains committed to eradicating poverty and improve the lives of people through economic emancipation.Speaking during the official opening of t...Published: 06 Oct 2016 at 14:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe urges Zanu-PF youth to engage in social media wars
President Mugabe has warned zanu-PF youths not to abuse social media by busing it to attack rival parties and incite violence saying they should use information communication technologies to defend an...Published: 05 Sep 2016 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Cyber Crimes Bill will protect all'
The Computer Crimes and Cyber Protection Bill is there not to protect Government, Cabinet ministers or Zanu-PF, but to protect Zimbabweans. This must never be seen to be favouring anyone, but should b...Published: 28 Aug 2016 at 10:12hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill - an unjust Law in the making
"An unjust law is no law at all" this is a quote from Saint Augustine, an early Christian theologian whose writings influenced the development of politics and law. This quote pretty much sums up t...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 14:34hrs | 4 | by Lloyd Msipa
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