Zambia While the Zambia Daily Mail Limited showed interest in expanding to radio, Lusaka-based Muvi TV resolved their economic challenges by decreasing staff salaries by 75 percent and reducing the number of working days for staff. This decision to reduce salaries and working days was made following a visit by Zambia Revenue Authority officials over alleged unpaid taxes. JOURNALIST SAFETY A number of major occurrences during the year 2017 point to the need to guarantee safety of journalists in Zambia. While the incidents may not include death, there were incidents that are cause for concern. ACCESS TO INFORMATION The stickiest point on the political and media landscape is undoubtedly the absence of an access to information act in Zambia to date. Freedom of the press and freedom of expression should be granted in a democracy like Zambia. To gain full potential as regards to the exercise of these freedoms, enactment of the Access to Information (ATI) Bill into law should be a must. Enactment of the ATI Bill into law has been promised since 2002 and successive governments have campaigned on the premise of enacting the legislation but they have all not lived to their promises; and yet again, the Patriotic Front government have followed suit. This hope was renewed when the Justice Minister Given Lubinda reported at the 2017 Universal Periodic Review that the draft ATI legislation was finally ready for public scrutiny and would be tabled in Parliament for enactment. By the end of the year however, this renewed energy and hope for finally having ATI come to fruition was dashed as no step had been taken by government to fulfill its earlier promise. Enactment of the ATI Bill into law has been promised since 2002 and successive governments have campaigned on the premise of enacting the legislation but they have all not lived to their promises; and yet again, the Patriotic Front government have followed suit. In March of 2017, reports of a violent attack on journalists by United Party for National Development (UPND) supporters, at the party’s press briefing at its secretariat incensed MISA Zambia. In a statement MISA Zambia condemned the attacks on Silumesi Malumo of Radio So This is Democracy? 2017 125