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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 online spaces, a Cabinet Minister said this…

Published: 16 Jun 2025 at 14:33hrs | 138 | by Staff reporter

Alarm over Zimbabwe's new media blueprint

Media advocacy groups have raised serious concerns over what they describe as the veiled criminalisation of journalism in Zimbabwe's new National Media Policy, launched by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Wednesday at State House in Harare.…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 133 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa warns media against misinformation

President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday issued a stern warning to media practitioners against disseminating harmful information that tarnishes Zimbabwe's image, particularly in the eyes of global investors. Speaking during the official laun…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 12:21hrs | 247 | by Staff reporter

AI in focus as Zimbabwe Media Policy is unveiled

President Emmerson Mnangagwa officially launched the Zimbabwe Media Policy on Wednesday, a landmark framework aimed at guiding the country's media industry through the rapidly changing global information environment while promoting the spr…

Published: 29 May 2025 at 10:21hrs | 203 | by Staff reporter

Speech by Mnangagwa ta the launch of the Zimbabwe Media Policy

Director of Ceremonies; Vice President, Hon. Gen. (Rtd) Dr. C. G. D. N. Chiwenga; Vice President, Hon. Col. (Rtd) K. C. D. Mohadi; National Chairman of ZANU PF and Minister of Defence, Hon. O. C. Z. Muchinguri-Kashiri; Minister of State fo…

Published: 28 May 2025 at 13:13hrs | 477 | by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa

War veterans battle Mnangagwa in court

The escalating succession battle within the ruling Zanu PF party has now taken a legal twist, as a group of war veterans has dragged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to court over his controversial land tenure policy. The ex-combatants argue t…

Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:38hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa launches Zimbabwe media policy framework

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has officially launched the new Zimbabwe Media Policy framework at State House in Harare, marking a significant milestone in the government's efforts to modernize and strengthen the country's media landscape. T…

Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:38hrs | 274 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa to launch media and communications policy

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is set to officially launch the Zimbabwe Media and Communications Policy in Harare this Wednesday, marking a key milestone in the country's media sector reforms.The policy, which was considered and approved by …

Published: 28 May 2025 at 11:01hrs | 119 | by Staff reporter

Media fraternity key in HIV and AIDS prevention efforts

The media fraternity has been spotlighted as a vital partner in Zimbabwe's ongoing fight against HIV and AIDS, with its influential role in spreading awareness and shaping public attitudes.National AIDS Council (NAC) Provincial Manager for…

Published: 20 May 2025 at 09:58hrs | 46 | by Staff reporter

Zec ducks Chivayo millions saga

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) has pleaded with journalists to stop asking questions regarding the controversial US$40 million elections tender allegedly awarded to Zanu PF-linked businessman Wicknell Chivayo, insisting the matter…

Published: 12 Apr 2025 at 15:29hrs | 562 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe media must not agitate for illegal regime change

Advocating for the overthrow of a democratically elected government falls outside the bounds of media freedom, Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr. Jenfan Muswere said yesterday.Speaking at the third-anniversary ce…

Published: 01 Mar 2025 at 08:54hrs | 187 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe's narrative: A view from the outside!

In the case of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe's government was democratic, economically savvy and politically astute, until one day, overnight, it became oppressive and intolerable.The sudden change came about in the wake of the appropriation of …

Published: 22 Dec 2024 at 12:04hrs | 717 | by Kenneth Mufuka

Poor drainage system irks Harare residents

Residents of Harare have voiced their frustration and called for urgent action from the Harare City Council (HCC) following severe flooding in the central business district (CBD) after heavy rains on Wednesday. Several key streets, includi…

Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 15:00hrs | 256 | by Staff reporter

Mangwana threats unsettles media lobby groups

Media lobby organizations in Zimbabwe have raised alarm over recent threats made by Information Ministry Secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana against the Masvingo Mirror, a provincial newspaper, following its coverage of alleged voter misconduct …

Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:37hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter

Muswere tells Zimbabwe print media to adapt or die

Print media must adapt to technological advancements and artificial intelligence (AI) or face imminent decline, Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services Minister Dr. Jenfan Muswere warned at the National University of Science and …

Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:04hrs | 160 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's office warns media against malicious reporting

The Office of the President and Cabinet (OPC) has condemned attempts by some media organizations to create discord between Zimbabwe and Zambia, according to President Mnangagwa's spokesman, Mr. George Charamba. The OPC has called on Alpha …

Published: 30 Jun 2024 at 18:15hrs | | by Staff reporter

Social media comes to cop's rescue

A POLICEMAN who was facing imminent forced retirement for requesting to be transferred to Kadoma to look after his disabled child has been granted his will after Zimbabweans took to social media to fight in his corner.The policeman, identi…

Published: 16 Apr 2024 at 07:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwean ministers says social media is a security threat

GOVERNMENT has said the misinformation and disinformation being peddled on social media platforms have become a security threat amid plans to introduce laws to curb the practice.Information minister Jenfan Muswere said this yesterday while…

Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 05:03hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Selection of gukurahundi journalists opaque and dodgy

A group of local Zimbabwean journalists, whose selection has been clearly opaque and dodgy, are grappling with how media should cover the upcoming Gukurahundi outreach programme hearings into the 1980s massacres of innocent civilians in th…

Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 06:44hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter

Social media star detective Kedha arrested for car theft

THE irony of life has caught up with Tafadzwa Chidawa, also known as Detective Kedha on social media, as he is now facing theft charges.Detective Kedha is popular for viral videos in which he targets and â€˜apprehends' thieves in the Harar…

Published: 24 Jan 2024 at 20:06hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter

Media that serves the ruling elite is against the people!

Lately, in Zimbabwe, there has been a noticeable resurgence in calls for media to focus more on what is termed 'developmental journalism'.We have heard this call repeated by the new information minister Jenfan Muswere as he urged the media…

Published: 20 Dec 2023 at 22:56hrs | 13 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe sees decrease in Media Freedom violations, says MISA

Zimbabwe is on the brink of an improved standing in the World Press Freedom Index rankings, provided the recent positive trend of reduced media freedom violations observed during the 2023 elections persists.The Media Institute of Southern …

Published: 03 Nov 2023 at 05:34hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter

Sexual harassment rampant in the Zimbabwean media

Sexual harassment is rampant in the Zimbabwean media and continues largely because the media ecosystem itself - the journalists, editors, media managers, Human Resources Departments and proprietors - is complicit at various levels, the Zim…

Published: 10 Oct 2023 at 06:31hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Jenfan Muswere's appointment breathes fresh energy into media landscape

The Ministry of Information, long hailed as the guardian of Zimbabwe's image on both the domestic and international fronts, is now poised for a significant transformation. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's appointment of Dr. Jenfan Muswere as…

Published: 01 Oct 2023 at 19:04hrs | 10 | by Mandla Ndlovu

South African media has failed to bring regime change in Zimbabwe

Over the past 22 years since sanctions were imposed on Zimbabwe, western governments have invested billions of dollars into South African white owned media, with the aim of discrediting Zanu-PF. This was intended to discourage people from …

Published: 29 Aug 2023 at 12:34hrs | 2 | by Rutendo Matinyarare

Mnangagwa to issue a media statement this evening

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa will issue a media statement this evening after the announcement of presidential election results.Earlier Mnangagwa postponed a press conference at State House to wait for the results first.Mnangagwa…

Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 19:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Anti-Zimbabwe media blackout unsettles US

THE United States (US) says it is unsettled that Zimbabwe has decided to block foreign journalists from covering the August 23 elections.Assistant Secretary of the US Bureau of African Affairs, Mary Catherine Phee, said government had reje…

Published: 21 Aug 2023 at 06:40hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe election stakeholders fret over biased media

ELECTION stakeholders have red-flagged biased media coverage against female politicians, saying journalists should promote fair coverage for both genders as the country edges closer to the August 23 general elections.Speaking during a gend…

Published: 03 Jul 2023 at 07:12hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Jonathan Moyo exposes Zimbabwe media capture?

Zimbabwean former MP and Information minister Jonathan Moyo, a professor of politics, has joined the raging debate involving local publisher Trevor Ncube, chairman of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH), and his business partner Gerald Mlotshwa, Pr…

Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:25hrs | 1 | 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 its development in the early 2000s.Moyo s…

Published: 26 May 2023 at 16:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's govt gags media over Al Jazeera exposÃ©?

PRESIDENTIAL spokesperson George Charamba yesterday subtly gagged the local media from reporting on the Al Jazeera documentary exposing alleged money laundering and illegal smuggling of gold by President  Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies.M…

Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Mphoko family feud plays out on social media

THE family of former Vice-President Mr Phelekezela Mphoko has been thrown in turmoil following claims by his son, Siqokoqela, that Mrs Laurinda Mphoko is not his biological mother. The issue has led to frosty relations between Siqokoqela a…

Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 07:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe slams Western media onslaught

The onslaught being directed to Zimbabwe by the West and its media is as a result of vast wealth endowments the country has which they want to resume their old habits of looting, a Cabinet minister has said.Following the launch of the land…

Published: 19 Jan 2023 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mutsvangwa calls for new media investors

INFORMATION minister Monica Mutsvangwa has urged investors to come to Zimbabwe where 93% of citizens are literate, an advantage in terms of human resources.Speaking during a ministerial panel discussion at the on-going first edition of the…

Published: 17 Nov 2022 at 05:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Don't 'tag' journalists based on their media house

THE Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) has questioned â€˜tagging' of journalists by naming their media houses in Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) accreditation cards saying this exposes them to harassment, especially by politicians.This co…

Published: 19 Oct 2022 at 05:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

When a govt needs media to help highlight its achievements then it has nothing to show!

When I was still a young lad, there was a television advertisement that I used to enjoy a lot.If my memory serves me right, it was by the now comatose state-run Cold Storage Commission (CSC) - which suffered the same fate as most other par…

Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 13:37hrs | 12 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Mnangagwa guarantees media reforms

THE raft of media reforms that the Second Republic is undertaking have been President Mnangagwa's long-held dream that is now coming to fruition.Deputy Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Service, Kindness Paradza yesterday…

Published: 04 May 2022 at 07:00hrs | | by Staff reporter

Chamisa a predator of press freedom

When Nelson Chamisa formed a new political party which he christened the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC), many people had expectations that there would be a paradigm shift from the MDC, where the former was rooted in. Chamisa has been …

Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Tafara Shumba

Western media lies inflaming war in Ukraine

If the world is not careful, Western media will have people hate the nation whose interests and borders are under intense security threat, while applauding those advancing a nefarious one world order agenda. Conflicts in the world are not …

Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Africa is not as bad as is portrayed by media

I AM really concerned about the role of mass media in this century. Firstly, because there is so much of it, secondly, because it can easily distort perceptions and understanding of what is really going on and its significance. Social medi…

Published: 20 Aug 2021 at 07:14hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Media should be apolitical, says Trevor Ncube

THE media should not be aligned to political parties and it should serve the best interest of the country, Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) chairman Trevor Ncube has said.Speaking at the Zimbabwe Independent's 25th anniversary celebrations in Ha…

Published: 13 May 2021 at 06:56hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter

Promote diverse media, Misa urges govt

GOVERNMENT has been urged to implement the Windhoek Declaration (1991) on promoting an independent and pluralistic media, as well as the 2013 Constitution which provides guidelines and guarantees to freedom of the Press.This was said by Me…

Published: 03 May 2021 at 06:18hrs | 1 | 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 lecture at the National Defence University in Hara…

Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 15:19hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

Prophet uses social media to diagnose

JUST a name and surname as well as a picture on WhatsApp is enough for Musawenkosi Vundla, a Victoria Falls-based prophet to "diagnose" and tell one's problem or misfortune. Vundla, who calls himself Thwasa Lodumo, is one of the few prophe…

Published: 01 Mar 2021 at 04:55hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter

When the US media is captured!

When my mentor, Eddison Zvobgo, returned to his hotel room in London after the Lancaster House Conference, he was met with delirious laughter from his English friend. The cause of laughter was Zvobgo's assertion that the Lancaster Constitu…

Published: 06 Dec 2020 at 08:19hrs | 10 | by Ken Mufuka

Securocrats scale up surveillance

THE State security establishment is reportedly planning to track and attack perceived opponents of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's regime, with local and foreign based journalists, ex-security officers, ex-Zanu-PF and opposition politicians…

Published: 23 Oct 2020 at 08:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Mugabe coup announcer paints rosy picture of Zimbabwe media

FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government is keen on improving the media sector, claiming journalists' working environment has improved under the administration of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.Speaking on the sid…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

The bane of rabid, frenzied media

Again, dear reader, if ever you are in doubt, if ever you are confused, if ever you need a moral compass, or whenever you find yourself agreeing with Jonathan Moyo, you should know that you are close to losing it.A village is the basest co…

Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:35hrs | | by Bishop Lazi

Strategy changes needed to push Zimbabwe media forward

IN this instalment, I will try to discuss, albeit briefly, strategic issues of the media in Zimbabwe, going forward. I am not sure how far forward we should look, but I would assume that so long we look forward, it helps.And perhaps that h…

Published: 03 Nov 2018 at 08:55hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

Abuse of media privilege

WHENEVER people talk about the media and journalism, phrases such as "media responsibility," "media ethics," "objective reporting," "public interest," "national interest", or "balanced coverage" are often highlighted as part of media ethic…

Published: 29 Oct 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova

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