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to protect people who fall victim of
Internet misuse. According to a Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation
(ZNBC) report, Ministry of Information
and Broadcasting Services Permanent
Secretary Amos Malupenga said internet
in Zambia has continued to be used for
wrong reasons.Officially opening a four
day stakeholders meeting on the Information for All Program (IFAP) in Lusaka
on Tuesday, Malupenga said increasing
access to information should come with
care and caution. Malupenga who is also
incoming chair of IFAP has stated that
the program has come at a time when
government has placed information for
all high on its development agenda.

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Date: September 13, 2012
Person/ institution: University of
Zambia (UNZA)
Violation/ issue: Other
On 12 September 2012, University of
Zambia (UNZA) students protested the
reduction of their radio stations’ coverage area by boycotting class, blocking
some roads leading to the Great East Road
campus and undertaking a protest match
to the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services Permanent Secretary,
Amos Malupenga’s office. According to
media reports monitored by MISA Zambia
on 13 September 2012, Malupenga told
journalists, shortly after a failed meeting
with the UNZA students who stormed
out of the meeting, that government had
reduced the radius of the station to 500
watts in conformity with the law governing community radio stations.



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Date: September 13, 2012
Person/ institution: Zambians
Violation/ issue: Other
Zambians to watch TV on mobile phones
at a fee. Zambia’s state-owned mobile
and landline phone service provider,
Zamtel, launched on 12 September 2012
mobile TV services which its subscribers
can watch at a fee. According to media reports monitored by MISA Zambia,
Zamtel made the revelation through its
Chief marketing officer Evans Muhanga.
He said that the service was available
to all Zamtel pre-paid subscribers and
would soon be made available to postpaid ones.
Date: September 17, 2012
Person/ institution: The Patriotic
Front
Violation/ issue: Other
The Patriotic Front (PF) will not protect
its members who are taking the law into
their own hands, says party Secretary
General Wynter Kabimba. This is according The Post newspaper of September 14,
2012. In an interview, Kabimba said law
and order should be observed regardless of the political party one belongs to.
“We don’t want anarchy in this country;
we don’t want disorder in this country.
Anarchy is anarchy whether it is perpetrated by the MMD or it is perpetrated by
UPND or it is perpetrated by PF.

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