SECTOR 1 Registration with the Ministry of Trade is only compulsory when a company is being formed. Scores: Individual scores: 1 Country does not meet indicator 2 Country meets only a few aspects of indicator 3 Country meets some aspects of indicator 4 Country meets most aspects of indicator 5 Country meets all aspects of the indicator Average score: 4.6 (2011:4.8; 2009:4.2; 2007: n/a; 2005: n/a) 1.6 Confidential sources of information are protected by law and/or the courts. There is limited protection for whistleblowers under the Anti-Corruption Commission Act, but there is no legislation directly related to the media in terms of the protection of information sources. Under the Criminal Procedures Code, journalists may be compelled to reveal their sources. The Parliamentary Privileges Act also gives parliament some power to censure the media based on their reportage, but does not give parliamentarians the power to imprison members of the media. “I have seen editors crying on the floor of parliament,” a panellist noted. The Parliamentary Privileges Act came into play when the editor-in-chief of the Daily Mail was summoned to Parliament to disclose a source for two articles on imported chickens titled “Dressed chicken goes to parliament” and “Chickens importations”, published in March 2012. “Instead of being concerned with the content, they were concerned with who the source was.” In this case, the source was not revealed, but the editor apologised for the manner in which the story was carried. A journalist who authored an article on the transfer of two police officers was called in by the police to reveal his/her sources. The journalist refused to do so. All in all, there is no protection for the media’s sources of information. However, for the most part, the media does not reveal its sources. AFRICAN MEDIA BAROMETER ZAMBIA 2013 19