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MISA-Zimbabwe under police investigation
Media Institute of Southern Africa - Zimbabwe Chapter (MISA-Zimbabwe)
September 16, 2003

The Media Institute of Southern Africa-Zimbabwe Chapter (MISA-Zimbabwe) has been placed under police investigation.

The Herald, a paper in which the government is the majority shareholder, reported on 16 September that police are investigating MISA-Zimbabwe for operating as a media service organisation without registration as required under section 66 of the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).
In previous meetings with the commission the MISA-Zimbabwe National Governing Council argued that MISA-Zimbabwe is not a mass media service organisation but an advocacy and media watchdog organisation.

The latest announcement comes after outbursts by the Chairperson of the Commission, Tafataona Mahoso that MISA-Zimbabwe was an outlaw organisation because it has not registered with his commission. Mahoso said that MISA-Zimbabwe was competing with his Commission to regulate the media in Zimbabwe, a charge that the MISA-Zimbabwe NGC dismissed as false. The Minister of Information and Publicity Professor Jonathan Moyo has also castigated MISA-Zimbabwe for promoting "misunderstanding" between the government and the private media in Zimbabwe. Speaking in Tanzania in August Minister Moyo, said that the media environment in Zimbabwe is stable and reports of abuses are unfounded.

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