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Fears of Zimbabwean media crackdown
15 May 2013
As an editor and a reporter are charged, journalists are bracing for more arrests ahead of elections. The arrest of the editor and chief reporter of the Zimbabwe Independent on Tuesday, four days after Zimbabwe marked World Press Fr...
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IFJ tells Zimbabwe to drop charges against Independent journalists
15 May 2013
Zimbabwean authorities have been urged to drop charges against two Zimbabwe Independent journalists who were arrested on Tuesday over a story claiming the MDC-T was engaged in sensitive talks with military and police hardliners. The...
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Trial date set for Zimbabwean Human Rights Lawyer
14 May 2013
Zimbabwean human-rights lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa who was arrested for obstructing justice will appear before the magistrate on May 27. In March, Mtetwa was arrested and held for eight days after attempting to prevent an illegal police...
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WPFD Reflection: The enemy within the Namibian media
14 May 2013
Last Friday local media joined the rest of the world in celebrating and observing World Press Freedom Day. As has become almost axiomatic over the years, the local media and the media freedoms and rights fraternity observed this day...
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WPFD Reflection: Botswana celebrates
14 May 2013
Last weekend journalists and media practitioners untied in song, dance and speeches to mark the World Press Freedom Day celebrations in Francistown. The theme for the day was ‘Safe to Speak: Securing Freedom of Expression in all Med...
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Police spies infiltrate Swaziland media
14 May 2013
Police spies have infiltrated journalism newsrooms in Swaziland, the kingdom's premier media watchdog has reported. This has led to a heightened climate of fear, the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Swaziland chapter said. MI...
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WPFD Reflection: Malawi- Detained in the line of duty
14 May 2013
When journalists went marching on May 3, World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), they were a poster short of last year’s haul—one calling on government to "open advertising in all print media". Its absence was a testimony to the comm...
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Editor and senior journalist arrested, charged with publishing falsehoods
08 May 2013
Dumisani Muleya, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent and chief reporter, Owen Gagare, were on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 arrested and charged with publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state. They were later released by police. ...
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MISA salutes journalists and encourages them to 'continue to speak truth to…
03 May 2013
MISA REGIONAL STATEMENT ON WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY (3 May 2013) The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) is deeply concerned about the rate at which media freedom and freedom of expression violations are occurrin...
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Broadcasting Diversity and ICTs21 February 2013  Broadcasting is the most powerful tool for access to information and freedom of expression in sou... Read more |
Media Regulation21 February 2013  A fundamental strategy of MISA’s advocacy work is to monitor violations of media... Read more |
Access to Information21 February 2013  The perception of knowledge and information as abstract concepts can no longer hold, because thei... Read more |
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INTERNET FREEDOM |
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Internet Freedom21 February 2013  Internet Freedom addresses the relationship between human rights and privacy laws and regulations... Read more |
Media and Elections21 February 2013  It is widely recognised that the media has a critical role to play during elections in facilitati... Read more |
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Zimbabwe: Civil Society Condem…
22 May 2013
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensiv...
Read moreZimbabwe: Civil Society Condem…
22 May 2013
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensiv...
Read moreZimbabwe: Civil Society Condem…
22 May 2013
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensiv...
Read moreSA: Statement by Media Institu…
22 May 2013
MISA welcomes this long-overdue intervention and pledges unwavering support towards the full realisation of all campaign objectives.Aptly titled ‘Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform’, this campaign is a fulfilment of a PAP...
Read moreSA: Statement by Media Institu…
22 May 2013
MISA welcomes this long-overdue intervention and pledges unwavering support towards the full realisation of all campaign objectives.Aptly titled ‘Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform’, this campaign is a fulfilment of a PAP...
Read moreSA: Statement by Media Institu…
22 May 2013
MISA welcomes this long-overdue intervention and pledges unwavering support towards the full realisation of all campaign objectives.Aptly titled ‘Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform’, this campaign is a fulfilment of a PAP...
Read moreSA: Statement by Media Institu…
22 May 2013
MISA welcomes this long-overdue intervention and pledges unwavering support towards the full realisation of all campaign objectives.Aptly titled ‘Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform’, this campaign is a fulfilment of a PAP...
Read moreThe Maravi Post - Information …
21 May 2013
BLANTYRE (MaraPost) — Malawi’s Information Minister Moses Kunkuyu says it’s misleading to conclude that Pres. Joyce Banda declined to sign the Table Mountain Declaration which seeks to guarantee media freedoms. The Media Institute of Sout...
Read moreZimbabwe Csos Condemn Mobile V…
21 May 2013
Fifty civil society organisations have issued a stinging condemnation of the recently-completed mobile voter registration exercise in Zimbabwe - highlighting a host of serious problems and concluding that it has to be re-started since it comprehensiv...
Read morePM under fire over media threa…
20 May 2013
Hebert Zharare Political Editor MDC-T leader Mr Morgan Tsvangirai has come under fire from media representative bodies for threatening to close media organisations that do not toe his party’s line should he win the forthco...
Read moreMucheleka calls on fellow MPs …
19 May 2013
Mucheleka calls on fellow MPs to support journalists By Masuzyo Chakwe Sun 19 May 2013, 14:00 CAT [33 Reads, 0 Comment(s)] ...
Read moreMount Meru Media Declaration a…
19 May 2013
Unlike in the previous years, this time the World Press Freedom day was jointly commemorated by stakeholders in the East African Community member countries, who met in Arusha for two days during the first week of this month. Only Burundi, which for o...
Read moreMount Meru Media Declaration a…
19 May 2013
Unlike in the previous years, this time the World Press Freedom day was jointly commemorated by stakeholders in the East African Community member countries, who met in Arusha for two days during the first week of this month. Only Burundi, which for o...
Read moreWhy our media should avoid the…
19 May 2013
Details Published on Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:12 Written by DEOGRATIAS MUSHI Hits: 30 Civic and religious leaders should often meet and discuss issues related to peace and security in the country. ...
Read moreNamibian Media Puts Law Reform…
17 May 2013
The Chairperson of the Law Reform and Development Commission (LRDC), Sacky Shanghala, has come under fire from some media institutions after his call to host a consultative meeting with political parties and the media to discuss a law to regulate the...
Read moreNamibian Media Puts Law Reform…
17 May 2013
The Chairperson of the Law Reform and Development Commission (LRDC), Sacky Shanghala, has come under fire from some media institutions after his call to host a consultative meeting with political parties and the media to discuss a law to regulate the...
Read moreWAN-IFRA addresses African Par…
17 May 2013
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has addressed the Pan African Parliament as part of a session on media freedom in Africa and the launch of the "Press Freedom for Development and Governance: Need for Reform" campaign...
Read moreMedia puts Shanghala on choppi…
16 May 2013
The Chairperson of the Law Reform and Development Commission (LRDC), Sacky Shanghala, has come under fire from some media institutions after his call to host a consultative meeting with political parties and the media to discuss a law to regulate the...
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Zimbabwe: Editor and senior journalist a…
08 May 2013
Dumisani Muleya, editor of the Zimbabwe Independent and chief reporter, Owen Gagare, were on Tuesday, 7 May 2013 arrested and charged with publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Editor lodges appeal a…
23 April 2013
Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation magazine, has lodged an appeal against his conviction and sentence. The Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) understands the appeal went through late Monday (22 April)...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Support pours in for e…
22 April 2013
Support continues to pour in for Bheki Makhubu, an editor in Swaziland who was recently threatened with a two-year jail term for “scandalising the court”. Makhubu was ordered to pay...
Read moreZimbabwe: Police officer assaults journa…
19 April 2013
An unnamed female police inspector on 18 April 2013 assaulted Newsday reporter Nduduzo Tshuma and photographer Resta Nyamwanza while they were covering explosions at a Redan petrol filling station in...
Read moreSwaziland Update: Editors’ forum condemn…
18 April 2013
The Southern African Editors’ Forum (SAEF) has condemned a possible two-year jail term or US$20,000 fine imposed on Bheki Makhubu, an editor, by the courts in Swaziland. Makhubu edits...
Read moreSwaziland: Editor faces 2 years in jail …
18 April 2013
One of Swaziland’s few independent source of news, The Nation magazine, has been found guilty of “contempt by scandalizing the court” following its publication of two articles in 2009 and...
Read moreAngola: Journalist detained over suspici…
03 April 2013
Journalist and human rights activist, Rafael Marques, was on 3rd April, 2013, interrogated and detained by the Department for Combating Organized Crime and the National Directorate of Criminal Investigation in Luanda...
Read moreSwaziland: Suspended editors reinstated …
26 March 2013
The board of directors at the Swazi Observer Newspaper Group have reinstated controversially suspended editors, Alec Lushaba and Thulani Thwala. The reinstatement comes eight months after the pair was suspended...
Read moreZimbabwe: Newspaper offices vacated foll…
18 March 2013
Members of staff at the privately-owned newspaper, The Zimbabwean, on Monday, 18 March 2013 reportedly vacated their offices in the capital Harare following suspicious ‘Unknown’ calls to the news editor Tawanda Majoni. The suspicious persons...
Read moreNamibia: Community Newspaper Editor assa…
14 March 2013
MISA Namibia hereby expresses its shock and condemnation of the recent assault and intimidation of the Editor of the Namib Independent community newspaper, Gareth Amos, by members of the Namibian...
Read moreTanzania Alert-Update: Attacked journali…
11 March 2013
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation, who was brutally attacked on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 by unknown assailants has lost his...
Read moreSouth Africa: Editors’ forum condemns ‘p…
07 March 2013
The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has condemned – “in the strongest terms” – what it perceives to be politically-motivated attacks on Zolile Menzelwa, a reporter with the weekly, The...
Read moreTanzania: Editor attacked, seriously wou…
07 March 2013
Absalom Kibanda, Chairperson of the Tanzania Editors Forum (TEF) and Editor-in-Chief at New Habari Corporation was on Tuesday, 5 March 2013 attacked by unknown assailants at the gate in front...
Read moreZimbabwe: Army bars reporter from coveri…
04 March 2013
Members of the Zimbabwe National Army on Sunday, 3 March 2013 reportedly denied Daily News sports reporter, Blessings Mashaya, entrance into Harare’s Rufaro Stadium to cover a charity soccer match between army...
Read moreZimbabwe: Police raid Radio Dialogue, pr…
04 March 2013
Zenzele Ndebele, the production manager of Radio Dialogue, a community radio station based in Zimbabwe’s second city of Bulawayo, is expected to appear in court on Monday, 4 March 2013...
Read moreSAEF stament on Swaziland Editor's sentence
18 April 2013
Statement on 2 year jail term or R200,00 fine Imposed on Swazi Editor Bheki Makhubu for ‘Scandalising the court’ The Southern African Editors Forum (SAEF) strongly condemns the two-year jail term/or R200,000 fine imposed...
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