ACCESS TO INFORMATION AND PROTECTION OF PRIVACY ACT (as amended January 2008) public attending the event), any public event with the express purpose of carrying out duties as a journalist; (e) to make recordings with the use of audio-video equipment, photography and cinephotography in connection with the carrying out duties as a journalist for the purposes of paragraphs (a), (b), (c) and (d). (2) Any person or journalist who in any manner holds himself or herself out as an accredited journalist without being so accredited shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding level fourteen or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding two years or to both such fine and such imprisonment. (3) An unaccredited journalist shall not have any right to claim the privileges provided in subsection (1). (4) No mass media service or news agency shall employ any journalist on a full-time basis unless such journalist is accredited by the Commission.”. 79 Accreditation of journalists79 (1) A mass media service or news agency shall make a block application or individual applications for accreditation in terms of this section on behalf of all or any journalists employed by it on a full-time basis. (2) A part-time or freelance journalist may, if he or she so wishes, make application on his or her own behalf for accreditation in terms of this section. (3) Subject to subsection (4), no journalist shall be accredited who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02]. (4) A journalist who is not a citizen of Zimbabwe, or is not regarded as permanently resident in Zimbabwe by virtue of the Immigration Act [Chapter 4:02], may be accredited for any period specified by the Commission not exceeding sixty days: Provided that the Commission may, for good cause shown or for the purpose of enabling the journalist to work for the duration of any event he or she is accredited to cover, extend the period by a specified number of days. (5) In relation to an application for accreditation made in terms of subsection (1) or (2), the Commission shall accredit an applicant journalist or journalist on whose behalf a mass media service or news agency makes the application, and issue a press card to him or her if it is satisfied that— (a) the applicant or mass media service or news agency has complied with the prescribed formalities, including the payment of the prescribed fee; and (b) applicant, or journalist on whose behalf a mass media service or news agency makes the application, is not disqualified by virtue of subsection (3). (6) In relation to an application for accreditation by a journalist referred to in subsection (4), the Commission shall accredit an applicant journalist and issue a press card to him or her if it is satisfied that the applicant has complied with the prescribed formalities, including the payment of the prescribed fee. 79 Section substituted by s. 15 of Act 20/2007. 45