Ideas, procedures, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, discoveries, facts or figures, even if they are explained, illustrated or embodied in a work
News of the day that are mere items of press information
Speeches of a political nature
Speeches delivered in the course of legal proceedings
The following public documents:
official texts of enactments;
official texts of Bills prepared for presentation in Parliament;
official records of judicial proceedings and decisions;
notices, advertisements and other material published in the Gazette;
applications, specifications and other matters published in the Patent and Trade Marks Journal referred to in section 95 of the Patents Act [Chapter 26:03];
official texts of international conventions, treaties and agreements to which Zimbabwe is a party;
entries in, and documents that form part of, any register which is kept in terms of an enactment and is open to public inspection; and
such other documents of a public nature as may be prescribed.
