Zimbabwe NGO law tightens oversight and penalties, lawyers warn
By Bridget Mabanda A leading Zimbabwean law firm has warned that new legislation governing non-governmental organisations significantly expands government powers and imposes stricter obligations on charities and civil society groups. The Private Voluntary Organisations Amendment Act, which came into force in 2025, grants enhanced authority to the Registrar of PVOs and introduces tougher penalties for […]
Veritas Declares PVO Amendment Act Invalid Over Parliamentary Discrepancies
Harare – Legal watchdog Veritas has raised alarm over the validity of the recently gazetted Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Act, citing discrepancies between the final Act and the version passed by the Senate. The Act, published in the Government Gazette on 11 April as Act 1 of 2025, aims to overhaul Zimbabwe’s regulation of […]
Parliament gazettes revised PVO bill
By Staff Reporter HARARE – Zimbabwe’s Parliament has gazetted revisions to the Private Voluntary Organisations (PVO) Amendment Bill, following reservations expressed by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. President Mnangagwa’s concerns focus on the potential misuse of charitable trusts and other organizations, which are typically not considered voluntary organizations, as conduits for criminal and terrorist financing. Critics, however, […]
The Future of Zim Media: Predicting the Unpredictable
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Zim still needs to do more to realise press freedom
The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) takes the occasion of commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration to reassert its demands on the government of Zimbabwe to implement constitutional provisions on media freedom in line with the standards set by the global family of nations. The Windhoek Declaration, a by-product of a United Nations […]
Windhoek @30: Opportunity for regional collective action
By Nigel Nyamutumbu It’s now been 30 years since a landmark conference organised by the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) in Windhoek, Namibia to deliberate on the future of the media, then largely dominated by the press. The resolutions of that conference, framed as the Windhoek Declaration, outlined the democratic principles of […]
Southern Africa Press Freedom report 2019- 2020
Media Capture In Zimbabwe : Fact Or Fiction?
Covid 19 Ramifications on the Media in Zimbabwe : Unpacking the Sustainability and Operational Constraints
A study conducted by Alexander M Rusero Independent Researcher and Senior Lecturer of Journalism and Political Studies 2021. Executive Summary Like any country in the world, Zimbabwe was taken by surprise by the advent of the global pandemic of coronavirus. The 2019 novel coronavirus was first detected in Wuhan, China in late December 2019 and […]