Guide to Media Law in Zimbabwe, A

"This is an updated guide to the Zimbabwe's rapidly mutating media laws to assist journalists and other media workers keep up to speed with restrictions and new registration requirements. It is a revised and updated version of the December 2002 "Guide to Zimbabwe Press Law". The new edition also includes a comprehensive overview of Zimbabwe's broadcast and other electronic media law."

The guide covers Zimbabwe law relating to both print and electronic media, and is intended to assist journalists to understand those aspects of Zimbabwe law that have a bearing on their professional work. This includes new media and journalist registration laws and the "unpopular" defamation law, as well as national key point legislation, access to information laws, military and police Acts, and laws governing parliamentary and executive privilege.

Topics include:

• Access to information by media;
• Accreditation and discipline of journalists;
• Constitutional provisions guaranteeing media freedom;
• Contempt of Parliament; and
• Criminal offences in Access to Information and Protection

The guide also contains an overview of regulations governing coverage of public meetings, political gatherings, parliament, court proceedings, prisons, police actions, and other potentially contentious events. The revised edition is also meant as a reference work for foreign journalists or media academics interested in the plight of Zimbabwe's embattled media. The guide can be ordered, free of charge.

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