In 2000, a violent land reform programme gripped the country, led by Zanu PF supporters and former liberation war veterans. The reform programme unleashed a wave of political violence across the country and, with the violence, attendant state-sanctioned human rights abuses. The violent land reform programme triggered a severe economic crisis characterised by shortages of basic commodities, high inflation, and unemployment. This crisis, in turn, triggered a wave of protests and violent demonstrations, riots, mass protests, vicious electoral contestations, and other acts of political and economic subterfuge. To some, the increase in state security-related legislation has followed the degeneration of internal political dynamics, characterised by fierce political contestations between the governing Zanu PF party, opposition political parties, and other civil society movements. The law's key provisions include, among others, the following, which we consider to be key and consequential to this law. Section 6(1) of the ICA provides that: A warrant shall be issued by the Minister to an authorised person …if there are reasonable grounds for the Minister to believe that: (a) any of the following offences has been or is being or will probably be committed (i) a serious offence by an organised criminal group; (b) … the gathering of information concerning an actual threat to national security or to any compelling national economic interest is necessary; (c) The gathering of information concerning a potential threat to public safety or national security is necessary1. 1 The Interception of Communications Act [Chapter 11:04] section 6.