{"id":222835,"date":"2026-02-05T00:12:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-content-queen-or-rule-breaker-baz-warns-content-creators\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:12:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T22:12:11","slug":"zimbabwe-content-queen-or-rule-breaker-baz-warns-content-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-content-queen-or-rule-breaker-baz-warns-content-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Content Queen or Rule Breaker? BAZ Warns Content Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has issued a warning to digital content creators saying it will take enforcement action against those who distribute explicit material accessible to children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In a statement, the national broadcast regulator said it was &#8220;seriously concerned&#8221; by the growing spread of indecent and obscene content on digital platforms including social media which is being viewed by audiences in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Authority said all digital content consumed within the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602040039.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) has issued a warning to digital content creators saying it will take enforcement action against those who distribute explicit material accessible to children. In a statement, the national broadcast regulator said it was &#8220;seriously concerned&#8221; by the growing spread of indecent and obscene content on digital platforms including social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,31219,33718,7861,12098,257,14063,7858,254,6853,4686,421],"class_list":["post-222835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baz","tag-breaker","tag-content","tag-creators","tag-news","tag-queen","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-warns","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}