Victim/ Concerned Party

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Status of matter

Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ)

Leo Mugabe, the chairman of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee, said the BAZ would soon be summoned to appear before their committee to explain why it has not invited applications for community radio stations three years after the enabling legislation came into force and also on the need to open the airwaves.

1 November 2005

The BAZ is still to appear before the committee.

Professor Jonathan Moyo, former Minister of Information and Publicity.

Moyo failed to appear before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Communications.

Leo Mugabe chairman of the committee said his team intends to probe Moyo on the operations of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings and the Media and Information Commission during his tenure as Minister of Information.

1 November 2005

Moyo was still to appear before the committee at the beginning of December.

Ironically, Moyo is also a member of the same committee

Dr Ibbo Mandaza, founding CEO and editor-in-chief of the Zimbabwe Mirror Newspapers Group (ZMNG), publishers of the Daily Mirror and Sunday Mirror.

Retired Chief Justice Anthony Gubbay selected to chair an independent labour panel to determine the suspension of Mandaza.

1 November 2005

Mandaza alleges that his ouster is being engineered by the Central Intelligence Organisation following its acquisition of the majority shareholding in the publishing company.

Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ

Pikirayi Deketeke, BAZ chairman says the regulatory body is evaluating the country’s licensing and content regulations to establish whether there are restrictions that inhibit the entry of new players into the broadcasting sector.

2 November 2005

Deketeke, said the Authority would "if necessary" forward its recommendations to the Ministry of Information and Publicity, and would thereafter, be in a position to invite fresh applications for broadcasting licenses.

Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) leaders, Lovemore Matombo and Wellington Chibebe and Last Taribuka, a photographer with the ZCTU’s mouthpiece, The Worker.

Matombo the ZCTU president and secretary-general Wellington Chibebe, were arrested following demonstrations in Harare against the ever-rising cost of living.

Taribuka was arrested while covering the demonstrations.

8 November 2005

The two ZCTU leaders and Taribuka, arrested together with about 100 other demonstrators were later released from Harare Central Police Station.

Dr Ibbo Mandaza

An independent labour tribunal set up to probe Mandaza’s ouster from ZMNG fails to proceed with the hearings after parties to the dispute failed to agree on the need for independent arbitration.

22 November 2005

Mandaza is arguing that his suspension is illegal, unprocedural and highly irregular.

TeleAccess

The Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (POTRAZ), cancelled TeleAccess’ licence to provide fixed public telecommunications services in terms of Section 43 of the Postal and Telecommunications Act.

POTRAZ said the licence had been cancelled after TeleAccess failed to provide the service by 1 May 2003 in terms of the licensing conditions.

29 November 2005

TeleAccess is appealing against the cancellation of its licence.