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'Internet censorship worst in Zimbabwe'
ZIMBABWE recorded the worst internet censorship rankings in southern Africa despite President Emmerson Mnangagwa's new dispensation promises to usher democratic reforms.Zimbabwe is one of the ...Published: 13 Aug 2021 at 06:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Police in 5-day cybercrime training
AS the anti-cybercrime fight intensifies, the Zimbabwe Republic Police has conducted a five-day train-the-trainer cybercrime first offenders' course to equip officers with the requisite skills to curb...Published: 21 Aug 2019 at 07:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Concern over CIO operatives on spooky cybercrime panel
CIVIC society organisations have raised grave concerns over the involvement of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), among other security organs, on the committee which will be responsible for ...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 17:10hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Cyber bullying: A growing menace
It is common nowadays for those that use social media platforms to wake up and discover unusual posts on their accounts.Some of the posts might be nasty, disrespectful and abusive, creating gr...Published: 13 Jan 2019 at 07:57hrs | 9 | by Emmanuel Kafe
Constraints on the work of Human Rights & Democracy Defenders, internet freedoms core in democracy promotion.
Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) in conjunction with Media Centre releases an advocacy report titled, 'How the right to be online has been assaulted in Zimbabwe: Consequences on the work of Human ri...Published: 09 Apr 2018 at 18:46hrs | | by Patience Sibanda
Cybercrime bill repressive, designed to steer self-censorship among citizens
The Cybercrime and Cyber-security Bill which seeks to regulate internet conduct in Zimbabwe is very repressive and is being crafted with authoritarian intentions to instil self-censorship among citize...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 16:34hrs | 16 | by Byo24News Reporter
Grave Consequences on Internet Freedoms in Zimbabwe! - report
Done in partial contribution to ZDI and Media Centre investigation into the state of internet governance/freedom in Zimbabwe, this paper presents findings of the study of the Cybercrime and Cyber-secu...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 11:04hrs | | by Zimbabwe Democracy Institute
Man who leaked bond coin invoice speaks, 'I sent invoice to my friend'
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has unmasked the person who leaked photos of a consignment invoice of bond coins destined for Zimbabwe from South Africa this week and has reported the case to police to i...Published: 23 Sep 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Why is the Zimbabwean Diaspora protesting outside the country?
Relations and nature of interaction among the ruling oligarchy, opposition elements, the general citizenry, and civil society groups in Zimbabwe have been dominated by the long and pervasive Zanu PF r...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 08:12hrs | | by Kingstone Jambawo
CIO, army snooping intensifies amid factional wars
STATE security agents, comprising the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and military intelligence, have increased surveillance on senior Zanu-PF and government officials, leaving them jittery an...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 08:52hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Draft Zimbabwe cybercrime bill misplaced and violate rights
The Zimbabwe Computer Crime and Cyber Crime Bill is a totally misplaced intervention by the government and a total violation of the citizens’ basic fundamental rights and freedoms as enshrined i...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 14:33hrs | 1 | by Benedict Sibasa
Mawarire a cyber terrorist - police
Zimbabwe People First (ZimFirst) national spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire has become the first Zimbabwean to be charged with cyber terrorism.He handed himself over to the police Law and O...Published: 11 Aug 2016 at 17:50hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Zimbabwe's computer crime and cybercrime bill
Zimbabwe's computer crime and cybercrime bill ...Published: 10 Aug 2016 at 16:24hrs | | by online
Mugabe's govt sharpens spying tools
Information Communication Technology minister Supa Mandiwanzira has submitted the draft National Information Communication Technology (ICT) Policy document, which when signed by President Robert Mugab...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe widens spying on citizens
Government has come up with a new bill to widen its spying capability and monitoring of civilians at a time it is struggling to fully implement the new constitution that has an expanded bill of ri...Published: 06 Mar 2015 at 08:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru, Mnangagwa date MPs
Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday met Zanu-PF parliamentarians in Harare to have a postmortem of the last session of Parli...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 05:51hrs | 1 | by Felex Share
Zanu-PF ministers bunk Parliament sessions
THE Second Session of the Eighth Parliament begins next Tuesday amid revelations that some ministers and their deputies bunk Parly sessions in pursuit of personal business.The revelations emer...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigeria criminalises identity theft
The Senate has passed a broad bill, which criminalises child pornography, cyberstalking, identity theft, and hacking government computers. The draft law, known as the Cybercrime Bill, had been deb...Published: 05 Nov 2014 at 23:07hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Implementation of the indigenisation policy heavily flawed,' says Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has admitted the implementation of his government's indigenisation policy was heavily flawed, adding that some indigenous businesspersons had capitalised on the legal gaps...Published: 29 Oct 2014 at 06:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
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