Zimbabwean society where various forms of art, culture and expression serve to showcase the diversity of the nation’s heritage. The policy further seeks to create an enabling environment that allows for inclusive, equitable and vibrant participation by all Zimbabweans in arts, culture and heritage for greater social cohesion. It also encourages individuals, groups and communities to contribute towards safeguarding Zimbabwe’s culture, artistic expression, and tangible as well as intangible heritage for posterity. The guiding principles of the policy include sovereignty, equal dignity for all indigenous sustainable cultures, recognition development, of culture unhu/Ubuntu, in economic Pan-Africanism development, and African renaissance. While the policy might not really have aspects of censorship it can be a guide as to how the policy views artists and how then such artistic expression will be censored. The fact that the policy highlights sovereignty as a guiding principle leaves a lot of room for individuals to interpret sovereignty. In this case censorship needs also to be clearly addressed within the policy giving clear reasons for censorship. 39 | P a g e

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