Fungayi Jessie Majome v Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation & 2 Ors

Key Issues

• {"issue_text":"Whether sections 38B2, 38C and 38D1-4 of Broadcasting Services Act are constitutionally invalid for authorizing compulsory deprivation of property","issue_type":"constitutional","dispositive":"no","related_facts":"Applicant's refusal to pay licence fees; provisions require payment for possessing receiving apparatus"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether applicant invoked wrong remedy for protection of alleged infringed rights","issue_type":"procedural","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Applicant relied on constitutional provisions rather than Administrative Justice Act"}
• {"issue_text":"Whether ZBC's alleged bias gives rise to constitutional matter or statutory violation","issue_type":"mixed","dispositive":"yes","related_facts":"Alleged bias towards ZANU-PF in programming; existence of statutory provisions prohibiting bias"}

Background