Other cases involved the assault of Zimbabwe Independent reporter Herbert Moyo and the detention and harassment of Mashudu Netsiada, a senior reporter with the state-run Chronicle, by MDC-T supporters and security personnel respectively. Bernard Mapwanyire, a reporter with The Mirror in Masvingo, was allegedly subjected to similar harassment and threats by MDC-T ‘bouncers’ on 8 June 2013 while covering the party’s primary elections. On 18 June 2013, Emmanuel Mhorombe a vendor with Newsday, was reportedly threatened with unspecified action by suspected Zanu PF youths at Alpha Media Holdings’ news stand in Harare’s populous suburb of Mbare. The youths are said to have also confiscated 40 copies of the newspaper. Journalists Wendy Muperi and Wonai Masvingise of the Daily News and Newsday respectively, were harassed and detained by security personnel at the Zanu PF Headquarters in Harare on 21 June 2013. Ironically, no arrests have been made following these incidents which come on the freshness of the endorsement and signing into law of the new Zimbabwean constitution which now exclusively guarantees media freedom as well as citizens’ right to access to information. The police should deal firmly with these wanton acts of lawlessness which pose great risk to the lives of journalists, media workers as well as their families. Supporters of political parties should be educated that their actions constitute serious violations of journalists’ constitutional right to media freedom and citizens’ right to freedom of expression and access to information. On the other hand, political leaders should guard against making inflammatory statements that incite and excite their supporters to take the law into their own hands thus tarnishing the images of their respective parties and that of Zimbabwe. v Access to Information/Freedom of Expression Access to information is a fundamental component of freedom of expression critical to citizens making informed choices as well as holding accountable the Executive and any other public institutions for that matter. The observation by the Supreme Court in October 2013 that Section 31 (a) iii of the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act which criminalises publishing or communicating false statements prejudicial to the state, is in violation of the Constitution, could thus be a pointer to the repealing of that provision. Although the Supreme Court made the observation in terms of the old constitution’s section 20 (1), it is trite to note that Section 61 of the new supreme law now explicitly guarantees freedom of expression and media freedom. The Supreme Court’s observation followed an appeal by Zimbabwe Independent journalists Constantine Chimakure and Vincent Kahiya, and artist Owen Maseko, who had been charged under the Criminal Code.