(1) The President may, after consultation with the Minister and the licensee concerned, give that licensee such directions of a general character as appear to the President to be requisite or expedient in the interests of national security or relations with the government or territory outside Zimbabwe. (2) If it appears to the President to be requisite or expedient to do so in the interests of national security or relations with the government of a country or territory outside Zimbabwe, he may, after consultation with the Minister and the licensee concerned, give to that licensee a direction requiring him to do, or not to do, a particular thing specified in the direction. (3) A licensee shall give effect to any direction given to him in terms of this section notwithstanding any other duty imposed on him by or under this Act. (4) The President shall, at the earliest opportunity, publish in the Gazette every direction given under this section, unless he is of the opinion that such publication is against the interests of national security or relations with the government of a country or territory outside Zimbabwe, or the commercial interests of any person. (5) A person shall not disclose, or be required by virtue of any enactment or otherwise to disclose, anything done by virtue of this section if the President has notified him that the President is of the opinion that disclosure of that thing is against the interests of national security or relations with the government of a country or territory outside Zimbabwe, or the commercial interests of some other person. (6) The President may make ex gratia payments to licensees for the purpose of defraying or contributing towards any losses they may sustain by reason of compliance with any direction given in terms of this section. (7) Any licensee who refuses to comply with a direction given in terms of this section shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. It is quite clear from a reading of the above provisions that sections 98(2) and 103 are a derogation of the right to freedom of expression conferred by s 20 of the Constitution.

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