Misa lobbies for positive changes on new media Bills

The Media Institute of Southern Africa (Misa) Zimbabwe and Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) have urged government to make positive changes in the three proposed new media Bills to align with regional and continental instruments and principles that the country is a signatory to.

Government has engaged stakeholders to introduce media reforms decades after imposing draconian media laws. There are fears the efforts were only to change names of the statutes and not the contents.

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