Zimbabwe: Criminal Defamation - State Gets Ultimatum

26 February 2015

Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku has given the State up to 30 days to clearly state its position on whether criminal defamation should be removed from the statutes in terms of the new Constitution.

This comes at a time when the Media Institute of Southern Africa has filed a separate constitutional application at the Constitutional Court seeking an order declaring Section 96 of the Criminal Law Codification and Reform Act unconstitutional in terms of the new supreme law.

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