Public Broadcast Media in Zambia Report Launched

The Africa Governance Monitoring and Advocacy Project (AFRIMAP) and Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA) have launched a report on Public Broadcast Media in Zambia aimed at providing common ground for negotiation and agreement that meets aspirations of the Zambian Society.

Launching the Report Tuesday evening at Southern Sun in Lusaka on behalf of AFRIMAP and OSISA, Retired High Court Judge Anderson Zikonda

said AFRIMAP and OSISA as well as the Open Society Institute Media Programme should be commended for a well thought report which he noted would help the Zambian Media to improve in areas it was lacking.

Judge Zikonda described the report as a nice document which had raised some pertinent issues aimed at contributing to the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC) adding that the national broadcaster was falling short of being a model of an ideal public media broadcaster.

Mr. Zikonda stated that the report contained various issues, views and recommendations based on the researcher’s own opinion and analysis of the situation adding that recommendations provided food for thought for both the Government and the media at large.

And Speaking during the launch Media Institute for Southern Africa (MISA) Zambia Interim Chairperson Fanwell Chembo said the report would provide a litmus test for the growth of Zambia’s Democracy since the country reverted to a democratic dispensation in 1991.

Mr. Chembo said the research was as a result of advancing knowledge created in the past adding that the document would also assist Zambia in solving the existing problems and even further improve in areas in which the country was already advancing.

He further said MISA Zambia greatly valued the efforts by AFRIMAP in financing the research.

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