PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has reiterated that his government is committed to ensuring no media house is shut down due to political interference. Addressing the European Union Parliament in Brussels, Thursday, President Hichilema said a free media was indispensable to the democratic governance of a country. “A free media is indispensable to a democratic governance and our administration will protect this fundamental principle of democracy in our national discourse. As you may know, in the last government, so many media houses were shut down, and we committed when we came in the office that not a single media house will shut because government has shut it, it will shut because it has failed to operate commercially, that will be the only...

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