By James Gwati-Home Affairs minister, Kazembe Kazembe said the government was moving fast with the enactment of an anti-social media “abuse” law.

Kazembe said this recently in Mazowe where he was addressing officers at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Mazowe.

“In the Zimbabwe context, social media has also been used as a tool for disturbing the internal security. As you may all be aware, the country has in the recent past witnessed the spreading of fake news as well as attacks on several Government officials via social media,” he said.

Kazembe said there was a need for the regulation of social media through the enactment of laws aimed at giving law enforcement agencies the requisite regulatory framework to monitor social media activities.

“Cognisant of the dangers posed to internal security by social media, the Government of Zimbabwe is in the process of promulgating the Cyber Security and Cyber Crime law. It is our hope that this piece of legislation will go a long way in addressing issues affecting Zimbabwe’s cyberspace and related crimes,” he said.