Journalists charged with publishing false data messages
What happened Alpha Media Holdings editor-in-chief Wisdom Mdzungairi and senior reporter Desmond Chingarande were on the 3 August 2022 arrested…
MISA’s Annual Report Highlights Freedom of Expression and Digital Rights Issues in Southern Africa
The year 2021 was one of consolidation and the repositioning of our organisation in the aftermath of the several headwinds…
Zimbabwe: MISA Develops A Guide to the Cyber and Data Protection Act
The Media Institute for Southern Africa-Zimbabwe Guide has developed a guide to assist ordinary citizens, data protection advocates, human rights…
Zimbabwe: State of the Media 2021 report
MISA Zimbabwe has released its 2021 state of the media report which takes a look at the media landscape and operating…
Statement on the recently reported internet throttling in Zimbabwe
Internet access should be guaranteed at all times and most importantly during election periods such as the by-elections slated for…
Press Freedom Situation in Africa- April- June 2021
Journalists killed, respectively in DRC, Somalia and Nigeria, Burkina Faso, including a social media activist in Ghana during the period…
MISA Regional Secretariat moves to Zimbabwe
On 4 June 2021, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) Regional Governing Council elected its new leadership. The RGC…
AFEX Calls for Release of Detained Journalist
The Africa Freedom of Expression Exchange (AFEX) is deeply worried about the prolonged detention of the journalist Jeffrey Moyo and…
Zimbabwe Falls on World Media Freedom Index
Zimbabwe has been ranked at 130 out of 180 countries in 2021 compared to its ranking at 126 in 2020,…
MISA-Zimbabwe Calls for Inclusion of Journalists in COVID-19 Priority Vaccination Rollout
MISA Zimbabwe calls upon the government to prioritise and also include journalists among the first priority groups listed for the…
Zimbabwe’s Looming Patriot Bill Cause for Great Concern
Legislation is an old age tool that governments continue to rely on to influence civic space both negatively and positively….
Zimbabwe: Detained Journalist Chin’ono Unwell
Lawyers representing detained journalist Hopewell Chin’ono on 1 September 2020 told Harare Magistrate Ngoni Nduna that the journalist is not…