Censorship and Entertainment Control Act, 1967

Censorship and Entertainments Control Act
Parliament of Zimbabwe (then Parliament of Rhodesia)
Long title An Act to prohibit or restrict the importation, production and dissemination of undesirable publications, pictures, statues and records.
Citation	Act No. 37 of 1967
Territorial extent	Zimbabwe
Commenced	1 December 1967
Administered by	Minister of Law and Order
Amended by
Censorship and Entertainments Control Amendment Act 22 of 2001
Status: In force

The Censorship and Entertainments Control Act 1967 is an Act of Parliament in Zimbabwe. It was passed by the Parliament of Rhodesia in 1967 to target obscenity and blasphemy in literature and film.[1] The act was most frequently evoked by the Rhodesian government to censor sexual content in literary works or communist literature.[1] Rhodesian era bans on literature for politically subversive content were reversed in 1980 after the country achieved internationally recognised independence as Zimbabwe. However, the new Zimbabwean government continued to evoke the act to ban literature and films for obscenity, a broad label which it has extended to include explicit sexual content and positive portrayals of homosexuality.[1]

The Act repealed elements of the Entertainments Control and Censorship Act, 1932, the Subversive Activities Act, 1950, and the Emergency Powers (Control of Publications) Act, 1965.[1]

See also

• Censorship in Zimbabwe

References

1. Student Encyclopedia of African Literature Archived 12 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• Text of the Act