institutions, corporate institutions, local and international NGOs, parliamentarians
and the general public. In this regard, it was agreed that the process of
stakeholder engagement commences immediately with the presentation of the
revised Draft ZAMEC Bill, the ZAMEC constitution and the Code of Ethics to the
Minister of Information and Media for the process to be expedited.
Further, the meeting resolved to call for a national media Insaka to be held in
October 2021 to broaden the engagement process. The Technical Working Group
on Statutory Media-Self Regulation acknowledges and welcomes the positive
pronouncements made by President Hakainde Hichilema on media freedom and
reforms.

It is elating that discussions have resumed with regard to the enactment of
the media regulation legislation as promised in the previous regime, with
steps taken towards enactment of the said law prior to the dissolution of
Parliament.

Media regulation has been a need for a long time as raised by several
interview participants and also evidenced by the number of censures on
professional misconduct by media houses, infringements against the rights
of journalists and so on.
It is worth noting that journalists in Zambia do not have any formal
recognition, save the implicit provision in Article 20 (2) of the Zambian
Constitution which states that “Subject to the provisions of this Constitution
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