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Woman cyberbullies wife after snatching husband
A disturbing case involving infidelity, harassment, and ethnic slurs has rocked the Victoria Falls community, culminating in the conviction of Brilliant Hlatshwayo, a 36-year-old woman from Chinotimba...Published: 11 Jul 2025 at 08:40hrs | 566 | by Staff reporter
Mai TT apologises
In a dramatic U-turn, popular comedienne and socialite Mai TT has issued a heartfelt public apology to businesswoman Shingirayi Ziwange Jere, wife of CAPS United football boss and Zanu PF legislator F...Published: 08 Jul 2025 at 19:12hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter
Harare woman fined for cyberbullying
A Harare woman has been fined US$120 after being convicted of cyberbullying her neighbour, whom she accused of being a prostitute and a husband-snatcher in a text message.Media Mashiri was fou...Published: 03 Jul 2025 at 19:03hrs | 239 | by Staff reporter
Potraz certifies 700 data protection officers
In a parallel development focused on digital regulation, the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has announced that over 700 data protection officers (DPOs) have be...Published: 01 Jul 2025 at 17:20hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
SDC chairperson convicted of cyberbullying headmistress
A former School Development Committee (SDC) chairperson at Chinotimba Primary School in Victoria Falls has been convicted and sentenced to 10 months' imprisonment for cyberbullying the school's headmi...Published: 22 Jun 2025 at 08:59hrs | 185 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe marks rise in digital surveillance
Zimbabwe is experiencing an alarming increase in digital surveillance by government authorities, severely impacting civil liberties and intensifying repression against journalists and human rights def...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:45hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe moving to tighten social media regulation
The Zimbabwean government has announced plans to bolster the Data Protection Act as part of efforts to curb the rapid spread of false and harmful content circulating on social media platforms and onli...Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:33hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
IPI calls for dropping charges against Blessed Mhlanga and HStv
The International Press Institute (IPI) global network has urged Zimbabwean authorities to drop all charges against media house Heart & Soul TV (HStv) and its journalist Blessed Mhlanga, who faces...Published: 31 May 2025 at 13:58hrs | 137 | by Staff reporter
Muswere insinuates that Geza's speech is cyber rhetoric
President Mnangagwa is a visionary par-excellence, whose loyal service to Zimbabwe can never be over emphasised or rewritten, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr Jenfan Muswer...Published: 21 Mar 2025 at 09:15hrs | 302 | by Staff reporter
Organisational consequences of non-compliance with Zimbabwe's Data Protection Regulations
Insurance, banks, mobile service providers, funeral assurance providers, in fact any company that stores personal data, the advent of the Cyber and Data Protection Act in Zimbabwe marks a significant ...Published: 13 Mar 2025 at 16:34hrs | 180 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Cybersecurity Challenges in Zimbabwe's Growing Digital Economy: What Steps are Being Taken to Address Potential Threats?
In the era of information and technology where everything is done through gadgets and devices constantly connected to the internet, one thing has become more important than anything else when pr...Published: 30 Jan 2025 at 21:18hrs | 85 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe elections watchdog raises concerns over data privacy
The Elections Resource Centre (ERC) has expressed serious concerns about the proposed amendments to the Constitution and the Electoral Act, which aim to introduce automatic voter registration for 18-y...Published: 22 Nov 2024 at 07:32hrs | 208 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe backtracks on fines for ordinary WhatsApp group admins
The government has clarified that WhatsApp group administrators who do not gather personal information from members for commercial purposes are exempt from obtaining a licence from the telecommunicati...Published: 10 Nov 2024 at 10:40hrs | 228 | by Staff reporter
Cyber crimes under-reported
Despite tireless efforts made by local, regional and global state and non-state actors to curb cybercrimes, statistics continues to spike because victims shun reporting these cases and therefore suffe...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 12:14hrs | 309 | by Gideon Madzikatidze
Prophet Magaya launches a blistering attack against Lincoln Mutasa
Walter Magaya's Heart Group, owners of Heart Stadium in Harare, has launched a blistering attack against ZIFA normalisation committee chairperson Lincoln Mutasa who claimed in a statement on Monday th...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 18:24hrs | 1609 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans are watching too much porn
Zimbabweans are watching too much porn according to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz). Potraz says statistics at hand show that adult entertainment si...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:43hrs | 805 | by Erick Matotoba
Zimbabweans spend too much time on porn sites
Zimbabweans are spending too much time on porn, betting and social media sites, as these are the top 10 websites visited by people in the country.This was revealed by Potraz CIRT & Enforce...Published: 21 Jun 2024 at 11:15hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe escalates crime prevention, justice delivery
Home Affairs Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Raphael Faranisi, announced the revision of several laws and the introduction of new policies to enhance crime prevention and justice delivery in Zimbabwe....Published: 19 May 2024 at 10:21hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Minister accuses media of peddling falsehoods
Jenfan Muswere, the Minister of Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services, has accused certain online publications of spreading falsehoods regarding strategic and operational matters within th...Published: 18 May 2024 at 12:40hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Harare hacker steals US$30,000
A Harare man hacked into an account belonging to Premier Tobacco Auction Floors and stole US$30 000.Nyasha Mutasa (33) appeared before magistrate Dennis Mangosi charged with contravening the C...Published: 24 Dec 2023 at 16:11hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt claims not to be spying on diasporas
GOVERNMENT has denied claims that it intends to spy on its citizens leaving the country after introducing a new system where nationals have to provide detailed information about their destinatio...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:37hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Violence against women serious breach of human rights
Media Institute for Southern Africa has said violence against women is the most pervasive breach of human rights worldwide which is being worsened by targeting and attacking women including female jou...Published: 26 Nov 2023 at 10:46hrs | 12 | by Stephen Jakes
35% Zimbabweans not connected to internet
Zimbabwe's Internet connectivity remains inaccessible to a significant portion of its population, with at least 35% lacking access due to a combination of technical constraints and foreign currency sh...Published: 01 Nov 2023 at 17:21hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
The pitfalls of Zimbabwe's 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 16 Jul 2023 at 09:22hrs | 15 | by Tawanda Majoni
The pitfalls of the 2023 elections
One thing that many people might not be seeing right now is that the 2023 general elections have already started.That's for the simple reason that elections are not just about a few days befor...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:45hrs | 14 | by Tawanda Majoni
Potraz bids to protect rights to privacy
Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ) has said that for purposes of enforcing the Cyber Data Protection Act, one has to be registered with the authority, under the pr...Published: 26 Jun 2023 at 06:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Posting nudes now attracts imprisonment
Sharing or broadcasting intimate photographs or videos without the authorisation of the person in question can result in a five-year prison sentence, Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jonathan Moyo's media reign of terror worried Zanu-PF'
Zanu-PF Secretary General Obert Mpofu has revealed his party was concerned by exiled former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo's hardline stance on the media which included tough laws that affected it...Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa not a born-again democrat
President Emmerson Mnangagwa almost succeeded in fooling everyone with his pretence that he had suddenly become a born-again democrat after the coup that toppled strongman Robert Mugabe six years ago....Published: 12 May 2023 at 06:25hrs | 1 | by Kholwani Nyathi
Release the voters roll
The harmonised elections are likely going to be held between 31st of July and 31 August 2023. That means we are only left with about three months to go to the polls.The most worrisome thing is...Published: 16 Apr 2023 at 18:50hrs | 1 | by Leonard Koni
ZEC says releasing electronic voters' roll may violate cyber law
Releasing the voters' roll in electronic format may violate cyber laws, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chairperson Priscilla Chigumba has told Parliament.An opposition MP has appealed...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 12:10hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Acie Lumumba back in the news
Harare lawyer Zweli Lunga has demanded a public retraction from Acie Lumumba who claimed this week the legal practitioner had a love relationship with his wife leading to the couple's messy break-up....Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 17:09hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MP takes voters roll fight to Supreme Court
HARARE North Member of Parliament, Allan Norman "Rusty" Markham has filed a notice of appeal at the Supreme Court challenging the High Court verdict supporting the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission(Zec)'s...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Court blocks the release of Zimbabwe's electronic voters roll to the public
The High Court has blocked the release of Zimbabwe's electronic voters roll to the public noting that this was a matter of national security that should see the document protected from manipulation....Published: 07 Mar 2023 at 18:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZEC fears electronic voters' roll will be manipulated
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has argued in court that it is within its rights to refuse to issue electronic copies of the voters' roll claiming recipients can tamper with them.This ...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 17:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa worse than Mugabe'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has a worse track record than the late former president Robert Mugabe in stifling civic space ahead of polls, a comparison by a human rights watchdog, the Zim...Published: 01 Nov 2022 at 19:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activist arrested for insulting Mnangagwa
A KADOMA Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) member Emmanuel Manguda has been charged with posting an image deemed derogatory to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Manguda, an interim CCC Kadoma dis...Published: 22 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe makes first journalist arrests under cybersecurity law
Zimbabwe's Press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages."The pair wer...Published: 12 Aug 2022 at 06:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
What became of Zimbabwe's Patriotic Bill?
THE Zimbabwe government has made several attempts to close down the civic space in Zimbabwe through existing and new legislation. This includes some amendments to the Criminal Law Codification and Ref...Published: 19 May 2022 at 18:59hrs | 17 | by Nompilo Simanje and Otto Saki
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