AIPPA

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AIPPA	Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Zimbabwe law)

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The first notable development is that under SADC pressure, and for the first time since the formation of the MDC, ZANU-PF conceded to sharing the political space, made amendments to the POSA and AIPPA legislation, and opened the draft constitution to public discussion.

AFRICAN MULTILATERAL RESPONSES TO THE CRISIS IN ZIMBABWE: A RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT PERSPECTIVE

POSA-and AIPPA put against the provisions of the Constitution and there is need to convince the people looking at the situation in Zimbabwe such as Sadc at the next summit that these issues have been constitutionalised and need to be actualised.

'We shall flood the courts with litigation': the leaking of confidential minutes from a Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) meeting has shed light on the thinking of the party as it prepared for the election called by the Head of State, President Robert Mugabe. The strategy they decided on is highly controversial

negotiations led in January 2008 to amendments to both AIPPA and POSA.

Zimbabwe: the transitional government and implications for U.S. policy

Exploiting a loophole in AIPPA, The Zimbabwean is published outside the country and trucked in from South Africa for sale on Thursdays.

Zimbabwe: telling the story, reporting the news: 'the finer points of journalism have, regrettably, had to be compromised in the desperate battle for access to information. This is guerrilla journalism....'

Indeed, if they can show us that AIPPA, as it stands now, has any problems that are fundamental, we will look at them together.

"What we have done here is like the rabbit chasing the dog"

The main independent daily newspaper had its offices attacked on several occasions and was eventually shut down by the police as it tried to continue publishing without being registered under the terms of the AIPPA. (27) During public strikes held in March and June 2003, journalists covering the protests were arrested and physically assaulted, as well as having equipment confiscated.

The Zimbabwean human rights crisis: a collaborative approach to international advocacy

On the other hand, the private media did not have kind words on POSA, BSA and AIPPA as it regarded them as violating citizen rights and freedoms.

Ethical fitness and the Zimbabwean media, 1999-2008

They made far-reaching inputs to do with a raft of laws, including the Defence Act, AIPPA, BSA, POSA and many others.

Why the president invoked Presidential Powers: the two MDC parties have questioned the rationale behind President Robert Mugabe's resort to Presidential Powers to enact temporary laws upon which he proclaimed the election date. Here, Nathaniel Manheru, a political commentator, tells why the president had to invoke the rarely-used Presidential Powers

Southern Africa (MISA) has stated that AIPPA is "one of the most

Zimbabwe

We negotiated, we agreed, and we actually effected amendments to the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), and to the Broadcasting Services Act (BSA).

'What has come out of our people makes me very proud'

The political message in the two songs Bvuma Wachembera (Accept that you are old) and Dai ndakadzidza (If only I was educated) are prime examples of how cultural expressions offer an alternative and relatively safer discourse yet unflinching attack on the despotic regime that uses the draconian AIPPA (Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act) to silence and mull divergent views.

Urban lives and the complexities of change: cultural transformation for survival in contemporary Zimbabwean fiction

Alignment of other laws to the Constitution: we need to align other laws to the new Constitution such as the Public Order and Security Act (POSA), Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), Defence Act, and the Police Act.

'We don't have an honest and genuine partner': "the last four years have been a painful transition characterised by the absence of a genuine partner to the cause. The only reason why we continued to hang in there was our desire to serve our people," says Morgan Tsvangirai (pictured right), leader of the larger MDC-T party