Zimbabwe journalists Friday celebrated a rare victory when a High Court judge ordered the Information minister and defunct media commission not to force journalists to register.
High Court judge Bharat Patel ruled in the journalists application that the Media and Information Commission chaired by media hangman Tafataona Mahoso was disbanded by a constitutional amendment passed last year.
Lawyer Selby Hwacha said: “This means that the MIC should not involve itself in journalists work.”
Patel said the MIC, which closed more than four papers in the last ten years had no power to levy accreditation fees on journalists and media organisations.