Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Laws in the SADC Region https://zimbabwe.misa.org Our key informants observed that there is need for CSOs to invest heavily on understanding the provisions of domestic laws, Model Laws and the Declaration. This can take the form of holding capacity building workshops around cybersecurity and cybercrime issues and their impact on digital rights. The use of popular, traditional and digital media to popularise model laws and national legislation on cybersecurity and cybercrimes was also emphasised. strategies include: lobbying parliamentarians to amend problematic provisions of the cybersecurity and cybercrime laws, showing of solidarity when digital rights violations occur and using Model Laws and the Declaration in such campaigns, advocacy by CSO to demand from government and telecommunication companies’ transparency reports on throttling of the Internet and Internet shutdowns, advocacy by CSOs, advocacy by CSOs to demand from data controllers and processors transparency reports on search warrants requested and issued Strategic litigation was also mentioned as one of the options, whereby public interest lawyers are engaged to test the constitutionality of certain problematic provisions of the enacted and proposed legislation. Some of the possible advocacy 36