Failure to implement media reforms worrisome

Zimbabwe today joins the rest of the world in marking World Press Freedom Day. We are doing so with a bleeding heart as a result of the failure by the inclusive government to fully implement media reforms as captured in the Global Political Agreement (GPA).

The GPA is categorical in Article XIX, which deals with freedom of expression and communication, that since the signing of the pact in September 1999, the unity government should have ensured the “immediate processing by the appropriate authorities of all applications for (newspaper, radio and television) re-registration and registration in terms of both the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA) as well as the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act”.

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