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moned to explain why he is not implementing envisaged media reforms as
agreed to and ordered by the principals in
Zimbabwe’s inclusive government. Joram
Nyathi, spokesperson for the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee
(JOMIC), the committee tasked with the
duty of fully implementing the Global
Political Agreement (GPA), confirmed
this development to the Daily News on
8 March 2012. President Robert Mugabe,
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and
his deputy Professor Arthur Mutambara
were recently reported as having ordered
Shamu to immediately reconstitute the
boards of the Broadcasting Authority of
Zimbabwe (BAZ), Zimbabwe Mass Media
Trust and the Zimbabwe Broadcasting
Holdings in line with a raft of other envisaged media reforms.

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Date: March 12, 2012
Person/ institution: Journalists
Violation/ issue: Detained
Four journalists based in Mutare, Eastern
Zimbabwe, were on 9 March 2012 arrested in Nyanyadzi, Manicaland Province while covering a story on pollution in the area. Charges were still to be
preferred against Sidney Saize, Andrew



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Mambondiani, Chengetai Murimwa and
Admire Matende. The four were only released on the same day at 8pm into the
custody of their lawyer David Tandiri who
is also a member of MISA-Zimbabwe’s
Media Lawyers’ Network. The journalists
were released on condition that they report at Mutare’s Law and Order section
at 7am on Saturday 10 March 2012 only
for them to be further released into their
lawyer’s custody on condition that they
report to the same section on 12 March
2012 for the determination of charges to
be preferred against them.

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Date: March 19, 2012
Person/ institution: The Media
Institute of Southern Africa
Violation/ issue: Other
The Media Institute of Southern Africa
(MISA) on 15 April 2012 bemoaned the
current state of access to information
in Africa, citing the negative impact the
glaring lack of information is having on
the citizenry. This observation was made
during the ongoing NGO Forum of the
51st Session of the African Commission
on Human and Peoples? Rights (ACHPR)
in the Gambian capital of Banjul. Referring to the African Platform on Access to

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