programmes have resulted in many major changes in communities and provided people with a platform to express themselves freely. Issues that have been covered on these programmes have subsequently been covered in the print media. Because of the interactive nature of these programmes – through telephones, SMSs and faxes – ordinary people have been assisted in communicating with those in positions of authority. The programmes have reached an estimated 13 million people in the country through Radio Phoenix, Radio 5FM, Radio Martha, Radio Chikune, Radio Lyambai, Radio Mkushi and Breeze FM. In conjunction with the Face the Media programmes, MISA Zambia also sponsored the community radio stations to run Good Governance programmes which have a had a profound impact on the community and MISA. Both radio programmes have been made possible by funding outside the basket funding. Apart from the ongoing issuing of communiqués, MISA Zimbabwe organised a meeting between the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR) Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, Pansy Tlakula and Tsvangirai Mukwazhi – a journalist who was arrested while covering an opposition rally. He was severely beaten and the Zimbabwe police destroyed his camera. Tlakula, who was in Harare shortly after Mukwazhi’s release, witnessed his intensive injuries and thereafter wrote a letter of protest to President Robert Mugabe, which was printed in the South African Mail and Guardian newspaper. The commissioner has promised to take these issues further at the next African Commission session in Ghana. MISA Zimbabwe has publicised serious media violations through the monthly alerts digest and these have been widely covered in the private media. Publications The MISA Annual Report 2006 was produced and handed out during the second Gender and Media Summit in September 2006, as well as to the chapters which distributed it further. As a result of a printing delay, the printed annual report could not be distributed at the MISA AGM that preceded the summit. However, bound copies were available for delegates. So This is Democracy? State of the Media in Southern Africa 2005 was published during the year under review. It was launched during World Press Freedom Day celebrations across the region, with the exception of Angola. The launches received a lot of publicity and doubled as distribution points for other MISA publications. The Southern African Media Directory 2006/7 was published during the year under review as it could not be published before the end of the previous financial year due to the fact that the communications manager took over the job late in that year. Both the Regional Secretariat and the chapters distributed it, and by the end of that year copies had run out at the regional office. Outside the Ballot Box: Preconditions for Elections in Southern Africa 2005/6, a collection of papers on the state of democratisation in southern Africa, was also published during the year. MISA Diaries were published during this year and circulated to MISA staff. The demand for these diaries has become so high that the print run was increased from 100 to 500 to include all NGC members as well as various partners in the region. The diaries are a means to further cement the MISA family and improve public relations both internally and externally. 64 Annual Report 2007