$OHUW Date: September 17, 2012 Person/ institution: Kasempa Community Radio Station Violation/ issue: Censored On September 14th, 2012, two uniformed officers from the Zambia Police stormed Kasempa Community Radio Station situated in a rural community in the North-western province of Zambia and forced themselves in the on air studio and demanded that a Good Governance program which was running be stopped. According to Station Manager Nyambe Muyumbana, the Police did not stop at this request but also pulled out the discussant from the programme leaving the presenter with no option but to stop the programme in its tracks before time. The MISA Zambia has since written a letter of complaint to the Inspector General urging her to address the harassment of Kasempa Radio and the letter was delivered on 18 September 2012 to her office. &RPPXQLTXp Date: September 17, 2012 Person/ institution: Zambian Government Violation/ issue: Other Government has appointed an eightmember technical committee to spearhead the construction of television stations in all the provincial centres. Deputy Minister of Information and Broadcasting Services Mwansa Kapeya says the technical committee was appointed this week and had its first meeting last on September, 13, 2012. This is according to the Zambia Daily Mail of September 15, 2012. The paper reports that the names of members of the committee were not immediately made available. &RPPXQLTXp Date: September 22, 2012 Person/ institution: Zambian President, Micheal Sata Violation/ issue: Other Zambian President, Micheal Sata has said that his government’s agenda on the media is to ensure that it continuously challenges Government to serve the people of Zambia better. He explained that in order to achieve the above, his government had, in the last 12 months, embarked on a wide range of policy interventions. “We have removed Government controls on public media so that they carry out their role of informing, educating and entertaining the public freely and professionally. Even our colleagues in the opposition are now happy beneficiaries of this open policy of my Government.” President Sata said this during the official opening of Parliament on 21 September 2012 in Lusaka. $OHUW Date: August 4, 2012 Person/ institution: Zambian Watchdog Violation/ issue: Legislated, Censored The Ministry of Home Affairs through the Office of the Registrar of Societies has given notice of cancellation of a certificate of registration to a prominent online media organisation the Zambian Watchdog. A newspaper advert published on Thursday, 4 October 2012 in 6R7KLVLV'HPRFUDF\"