Parliamentary updates Links to organisations monitoring media coverage, violence and intimidation. Added to this, the web site also endeavors to entertain and be thought provoking. Visitors can access the music of Zimbabwean musician Thomas Mapfumo. The MDC s email campaign took advantage of the thousands of Zimbabweans of all ages who have embraced this new communication tool. Email has given civil society and political and social activists an effective means of communicating their views and strategies.
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Regular updates using email kept people informed and involved. The government quickly realised that email was breaching their traditional control of communications and media. They pushed legislation through the Zanu-PF controlled parliament which allowed government agents to force local ISP s to allow them access to email passing through their servers. This caused concern only briefly in Zimbabwe. Zimbabweans quickly realised that the government was incapable of scrutinising the huge volumes of email generated daily.