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Accreditation
fees for media services gazetted
MISA-Zimbabwe
February 18, 2008
The Minister
of Information and Publicity Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu on 15 February
2008 gazetted new registration and accreditation fees for mass media
services and journalists in terms of the repressive Access
to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA).
In terms of statutory instrument 19 of 2008 the new fees structures
are as follows:
Application fee for registration for a mass media service
Application fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5 billion
Registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$5 billion.
Renewal of registration . . . . . . .$2 billion
The
application fee for a news agency
Application fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $2 billion
Registration fee . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...$3 billion
Renewal registration fee . . . . . . .$2 billion
Local journalists working
for local media will pay a total of $11 million ($3 million application
fees and $8 million accreditation fee). Local freelance journalists
will pay $2, 5 million application fee and $6 million accreditation
fees with a complimentary accreditation administration fee of $2
million.
Late renewal of accreditation
costs $2 million per day while late renewal of registration costs
$5 million a day. The regulations empower the MIC to determine card
replacement value.
Local journalists
working for foreign media will pay US$1 000 as application fee and
an accreditation fee of US$3 000. Temporary accreditation fee for
foreign journalists is pegged at US$1 000 and an application fee
of US$500.
Application to operate a representative foreign mass media service
or news agency will cost US$10 000 and a further US$20 000 for permission
to operate and US$2 000 complimentary permit administration fee.
Complimentary accreditation
administration fee for journalists within SADC is US$150 with those
from other regions paying US$200.
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