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Public Broadcasting in Africa Series: Zambia
16 November 2010
This report written by Chris Chirwa argues that Zambia must make urgent legal reforms within the media sector, especially given government\'s own acknowledgement in 2006, when it unveiled its Fifth National Development Plan, in which it admitted that: \'existing legislative framework within which the media operate does not sufficiently provide for freedom of the media, freedom of information and good governance.\' The report therefore, states that such an acknowledgement, gives firm cue for positive and speedy action to put in place new progressive media legislation and repeal existing laws that impede freedom of media and freedom of information in the country. Zambia currently has legislation that restricts media freedom, amongst which is the Penal Code, which amongst other things, deals ambiguously with sedition and criminalises defamation, it also empowers the President of the country to ban publications. There is the State Security Act, which is redundant, given the fact that Zambia is no longer threatened by its neighbours, the Anti-Terrorism Act, which is a tool can be subject to abuse by authorities in power, as well as the National Assembly (Powers and Privileges) Act granting unreasonable protection from criticism of law makers. The Zambia country report has 62 key recommendations in the media laws and operations of the public broadcaster, Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), divided into 9 sections: media laws; the broadcasting landscape; digital migration; broadcast legislation and regulation; ZNBC funding; programming; perceptions of ZNBC; broadcast reforms and key recommendations.
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Submission to the National Constitutional Conference of Zambia
27 July 2010
On 27 July 2010, participants from media, government, NGO’s and other international institutions with an interest in broadcast media in Zambia gathered at the Pamodzi Hotel, in Lusaka, to deliberate on the draft report on public broadcasting in Zambia. One of the major outcomes of this gathering was the decision by the stakeholders to submit a list of recommendations based on the consensus of the participants to the government of Zambia as it prepared to table the new constitution in Parliament. more...
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Public Broadcasting in Africa Series: Zambia 
