So This Is Democracy? Report on the state of media freedom and freedom of expression in southern Africa 2007 Jacob Mafume makes an impassioned appeal to the Zimbabwean government during a march to the Zimbabwean High Commission in Windhoek, Namibia, on March 16, 2007. MISA was among a number of civic organisations who lodged its concerns about the reported violent arrest and torture of activists who had come out in numbers to march in Harare, on March 11, 2007, in defiance of a three-month ban on protests and rallies imposed by the authorities. The police shot dead one of the activists, Gift Tandare, the youth chairperson of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) local structure during the March 11 incident. So This Is Democracy? 2007 -i- Media Institute of Southern Africa