Zimbabwe Moves to Establish National Sex Offenders Register

The government of Zimbabwe is finalizing legislative frameworks to establish its first National Sex Offenders Register. Local media reports indicate that the justice ministry is accelerating the initiative as part of a broader judicial reform package. The move follows years of intense lobbying by human rights groups and legal experts who criticized the country's weak tracking of repeat offenders. However, civil society organizations warn that the register's efficacy will be severely limited without comprehensive police training and modernized digital databases. The core vulnerability of this judicial reform is the state's lack of robust digital infrastructure to maintain and secure sensitive biometric data.