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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...Published: 30 May 2025 at 08:53hrs | 132 | 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 it...Published: 16 Nov 2024 at 14:37hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
VMCZ wants control over online media houses?
The Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) has raised concerns about the growing number of complaints against unregistered online media outlets operating within the country. In a recent st...Published: 26 Aug 2024 at 08:06hrs | 96 | by Staff reporter
ZMC threatens to muzzle the press on Gukurahundi genocide reporting
THE Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chairperson, Professor Ruby Magosvongwe, says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:09hrs | 23 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe seeks to control Gukurahundi genocide coverage process
The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) chair Professor Ruby Magosvongwe says media houses which refuse to sign the controversial code of conduct produced by the commission and an unrepresentative clique ...Published: 05 Mar 2024 at 20:49hrs | 5 | 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's govt gags media over Al Jazeera exposé?
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 Presid...Published: 30 Mar 2023 at 06:40hrs | 2 | 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
Chinese embassy threatens 'strong counter-measures' against The Standard over fabricated anti-China news
The Chinese embassy in Harare has threatened to take "strong counter measures" against The Standard newspaper and the NGO, Information for Development Trust (IDT), over what it calls fabricated "anti-...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 08:55hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Police caution politicians over hate speech ahead of 2023 polls
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has cautioned politicians against using inflammatory language or hate speech that incite violence and polarize the country ahead of the 2023 elections, The Standard ...Published: 03 Jul 2022 at 09:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe media, police in key pact
THE media and police in Zimbabwe have agreed to have key engagements that will see them work together and allow free flow of information and ensure security of journalists as they cover potentially vo...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 15:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Journalist threatened with violence
THE Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa)-Zimbabwe has condemned the harassment of freelance journalist Simbarashe Sithole by unknown persons over his stories exposing corruption.Sithole o...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 09:17hrs | 25 | by Staff reporter
Multi-million-dollar road rehabilitation storm erupts in Zimbabwe
KWEKWE City Council in the Midlands has failed to account for millions of dollars poured into the local authority for the rehabilitation of roads amid revelations that politically connected comp...Published: 23 May 2022 at 13:18hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Noic boss under corruption probe
NATIONAL Oil and Infrastructure Company (Noic) chief executive officer Wilfred Matukeni has been placed under investigation by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc).The development fo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:17hrs | 18 | 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 ...Published: 11 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | | by Tafara Shumba
Zec goes after media
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has formed a committee to monitor local media, a move which observers said was tantamount to a clampdown on journalists covering electoral processes.Zim...Published: 01 Feb 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urban home-seekers invade rural area land
The rising cost of land in urban centres such as Harare has pushed desperate home seekers to invade adjacent rural areas, which are now experiencing increasing pressure on demand for social services....Published: 13 Dec 2021 at 07:00hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mounting concerns over breach of ethical journalism
The names of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, the two Washington Post reporters who gained international eminence as premier investigative journalists, following their investigation and exposure of th...Published: 07 Nov 2021 at 07:51hrs | 25 | by Geoffrey Nyarota
Cyber Security Bill sails through
THE Cyber Security and Data Protection Bill on Wednesday sailed through the Senate without debate, but media lobby groups have immediately expressed wary over the potential abuse of the law by the gov...Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:37hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans paying more than necessary for Covid tests
ZIMBABWEANS are forking out way above what should be logically reasonable, up to over 100% more than their neighbouring South Africans for similar Covid-19 tests.Laboratories and some private ...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 14:51hrs | 2 | by staff reportr
Covid-19 procurement scandal revealed
ZIMBABWE was prejudiced of millions of united States dollars as a result of irregular procurement transactions around Covid-19 materials, with sharp scrutiny centred on tenders awarded to Young Health...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Concern over Thorngrove, Ekusileni opening
OVER a year after Government declared the start of rehabilitation works to turn Bulawayo's Ekusileni and Thorngrove hospitals into Covid-19 isolation centres, the two institutions have failed to offic...Published: 23 May 2021 at 07:28hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Free Press still elusive, says VMCZ
MEDIA lobby organisation, Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) yesterday said a continued media violations in the country was a sign that a free press was still far from being achieved.V...Published: 01 May 2021 at 08:43hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
VMCZ mourns Innocent Kurwa
Statement on the passing on of VMCZ Provincial Adjudication Committee member- Mr Innocent KurwaIt is with profound sadness and pain that the Voluntary M...Published: 27 Apr 2021 at 12:51hrs | 3 | by VMCZ
Mutsvangwa fights to open Zimbabwe airwaves more
THE government said yesterday that it planned to open up the country's airwaves further by issuing more television and radio licences to independent players.Speaking during a well-supported Da...Published: 09 Apr 2021 at 23:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
VMCZ trains scribes on investigative journalism
VOLUNTARY Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) executive director, Loughty Dube has called on media houses to set aside adequate budgets to facilitate in-depth investigations by journalists within their s...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 07:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
A tribute to fallen journalists in 2020
December has definitely been the worst month of the year 2020, which has really turned out to be the annus horribilis for virtually all Zimbabweans, especially members of the proverbial fourth estate ...Published: 27 Dec 2020 at 08:18hrs | 6 | by Muchadeyi Ashton Masunda
Zimbabwe police targets Mnangagwa critics
THE Zimbabwe Re-public Police (ZRP) yesterday threatened to clamp down on social media users who "cyber-bully" government officials, which critics say is meant to muzzle critics of President Emmerson ...Published: 08 Dec 2020 at 21:38hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Media organisations cry foul over television licensing
LOCAL media organisations yesterday cried foul over the granting of television licenses to six entities linked to the ruling Zanu-PF party and government.The Broadcasting Association of Zimbab...Published: 21 Nov 2020 at 22:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
VMCZ intervenes in Skyz Metro FM, Cal Vin beef
ZIMBABWE rapper Cal Vin and Skyz Metro FM seem to have buried their differences after the intervention of the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) who sat the two down this week, with both parti...Published: 03 Oct 2020 at 08:25hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
'MDC Alliance protests are acts of banditry,' says Mangwana
THE government has come under pressure following allegations of abductions, torture and clampdown on pro-democracy activists in Zimbabwe, Blessed Mhlanga (ND) met government spokesperson and Informati...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 20:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's former advisor speaks out
Former President Emmerson Mnangagwa's former Petinah Gappah has taken Newsday journalist to the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe over a story that he published about Gappah's resignation from Mnang...Published: 24 Aug 2019 at 20:51hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Does Bona Mugabe's censorship board still exist?
The last time the nation heard of a Censorship board was when Ignatius Chombo was the Minister of Home Affairs. Then Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo announced a new Board of Censors that...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 11:58hrs | 1 | by Nicholas Ncube
Parliament demands Zimpapers overhaul
CHAIRPERSON of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Media, Prince Dubeko Sibanda (MDC Alliance) yesterday called for the revival of the Zimbabwe Mass Media Trust (ZMMT) to stop government interfer...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 06:26hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe blighted by a 'tsunami' of fake news
Zimbabwe has once been described as a country blighted by a 'tsunami' of fake news since the beginning of a "new dispensation" following the largely unexpected or seemingly impossible removal of forme...Published: 01 May 2019 at 09:31hrs | 18 | by John Masuku
Trevor Ncube apologises to Zimbabweans
Alpha Media Holdings Boss Trevor Ncube has apologised to Zimbabweans over a story that appeared on Newsday saying RTGS$ to devalue further.Newsday quoted Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governo...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 17:00hrs | 2 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube's newspaper reported
Zimbabwe Election Commission Spokesperson Dr Qhubani Moyo has reported Trevor Ncube's The Standard newspaper to the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe over a story that appeared on Sunday alleging th...Published: 12 Mar 2019 at 14:23hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
The untold horror stories of the July 30 Zimbabwe elections
Forty-three-year-old Givemore Madziva Kanyurira looked dejected when he recalled his "worst experiences" ahead of the July 30, 2018 harmonised elections that exposed Zanu-PF's coercion and intimidatio...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 12:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa must call the midwife for a proper re-birth
After the opposition MDC Alliance commemorated its 19th anniversary last Saturday, one hopes that there will be a lot of introspection on the part of its leadership and supporters about their perpetua...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Kuda Bwititi
EU gives Mnangagwa wider win margin
The European Union Election Observer Mission says its tabulations show President Emmerson Mnangagwa's July 31, 2018 election victory margin was actually wider than that announced by the Zimbabwe Elect...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 09:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa reports ZBC
The Nelson Chamisa-led MDC Alliance has filed complaints with the Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) over ZBC and Zimpapers' "biased, false and defamatory" coverage ahead of tomorrow's electio...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 10:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe media remain polarised, unbalanced
Despite the ethical and legal obligation to be impartial in their coverage of electoral processes, the media in Zimbabwe remain polarised and unbalanced in their electoral coverage and reportage, medi...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 16:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Apology to Dewa Mavinga
In our articles regarding USAID's unilateral funding cut we used Mr Dewa Mavhinga's image, we apologise unreservedly for any damage done to Dewa Mavhinga's credibility and we have since pulled down M...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 17:44hrs | 1 | by Mandla Bhebhe
Female politicians target of social media attacks
SOCIAL media attacks on political opponents have become the new form of abuse due to global technological advancements, with female politicians becoming the worst affected.A study by the Unite...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Felix Moyo under fire
National University of Science and Technology (NUST) director of communications Mr Felix Moyo is under fire from media practitioners based in Bulawayo after he called a press conference only to turn i...Published: 06 Apr 2018 at 12:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Journalists harassed at MDC-T press conference
Senior Herald reporter Zvamaida Murwira and freelance journalist Anna Chibamu were allegedly harassed by MDC-T youths on 1 March 2018 at the party headquarters during a press conference to confirm Adv...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
I trained Tsvangirai on peace-building, says Mukonori
ROMAN Catholic priest Father Fidelis Mukonori has revealed how he trained the late former trade unionist and MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai on peace-building.Speaking at a Zimbabwe Union of J...Published: 19 Feb 2018 at 05:52hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's close friend reveals he trained Tsvangirai
ROMAN Catholic priest Father Fidelis Mukonori has revealed how he trained the late former trade unionist and MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai on peace-building.Speaking at a Zimbabwe Union of J...Published: 17 Feb 2018 at 07:44hrs | 7 | by Staff Reporter
Its unethical for media to capitalise on ailing people - MDC-T
MDC-T Bulawayo spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has said it is unethical for journalists and the media to capitalise on ailing citizens through writing negative stories with only the purpose of making ...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 11:41hrs | | by Steve Jackson
Kwese TV craze hits Harare
ECONET recorded brisk business in Harare yesterday after its shops started selling accessories for its new television pay-per-view offering Kwese TV following a High Court ruling overturning a governm...Published: 10 Sep 2017 at 09:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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