The report is now being used to make people take an honest look and open their eyes on the real state of affairs. In Zambia, panelists resolved to work urgently towards the repeal of still existing pieces of colonial legislation, such as sedition laws, that impinge on freedom of expression. And in Namibia there was consensus that a defunct Media Council as a self regulatory mechanism for the media should be urgently revived. So This Is Democracy? 2005 -172- Media Institute of Southern Africa