Privacy sacrosanct

The move by government to have its security agencies pry into people’s private phone records, text messages and Internet communication is a sad development in a purported democracy like Zimbabwe.

Not that democracy is the only way to govern citizens, but that it is the least worst of all forms of governance.

Government, through the enactment of Statutory Instrument 142 of 2013 on Postal and Telecommunications (Subscriber Registration) Regulations 2013 last Friday, has all, but denied its citizens any shred of privacy.

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