This year’s theme, No one should face breast cancer alone, speaks to the support and solidarity that women, including female journalists, need in fighting and surviving breast cancer.
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Reflections on the Spaces of Solidarity (SoS) Conference Agenda
The strides we have made during our first three years have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the following years.
MISA Regional Chairperson`s opening remarks at the 2024 Spaces of Solidarity
We need to devise robust pushback strategies and responses in view of the rapidly shrinking civic space we have witnessed over the past few years. Stringent NGO laws have been enacted across the region, which require our collective attention and strategic responses to halt the shrinking and erosion of democratic civic space.
MISA commends Botswana for gazetting ATI bill
In a letter to the Minister for State President Kabo Neale Sechele Morwaeng, MISA commended Botswana for gazetting the Freedom of Information Bill and asked that the proposed legislation be prioritised.
Journalist Simba Rushwaya was a jolly good fellow
He nonchalantly mentioned his life-threatening condition as if it was water off a duck’s back. For him, it was as if he was saying: So, what? Life must go on. Journalism must go on.
MISA engages SADC CSOs and stakeholders in the operationalisation of regional Non-State Actors’ mechanism
In her keynote address, SADC Deputy Executive Secretary for Regional Integration Angela Makombe N’tumba stressed the importance of the forum, as it seeks to deal effectively with various challenges, such as climate change, quality of education, and inequality in the region.
A study of technology facilitated gender-based violence in Southern Africa (Now Available!!!)
Globally, the statistics are staggering. It is reported that at least 73% of women journalists say they have been victims of TFGBV.
Open Letter to the AU Heads of State and Government on the Endorsed Continental AI Strategy and African Digital Compact
We urge the AUC Chairperson, H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, to stress the crucial importance of member states implementing the AUC Data Policy Framework. Data is
central to achieving the vision of the Digital Compact and should be governed in a manner that protects Africans’ fundamental rights and freedoms.
MISA will not be the same without Annie Musodza
She was indeed The Matriarch!
Zimbabwe experiences internet degradation due to infrastructure issues
An Internet Service Provider (ISP) explained that the degradation of the internet was due to a fault on an undersea fibre optic cable in South Africa that is the backbone of internet connection to Zimbabwe.