Judgment No. CCZ 9/2016 7 Const. Application No. CCZ 316/2012 (f) to ensure the independence, impartiality and viability of public broadcasting services.” The regulatory power is vested in and exercised by the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (“the Authority”) the establishment of which is provided for under the same Act. This means that when it is providing public broadcasting services the ZBC is under the supervision of the Authority. Section 2A(2) requires every person who is required or permitted to exercise functions under the Act to pay regard to the objectives set out when exercising those functions. Part 1 of the Seventh Schedule to the Act on programming by Public Broadcasters provides: “REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLIC BROADCASTERS: The broadcasting service operated by a public broadcaster shall, (a) make programmes available to Zimbabweans in all the languages commonly used in Zimbabwe; and (b) reflect both the unity and diverse cultural and multilingual nature of Zimbabwe; and (c) strive to be of high quality in all the languages served; and (d) provide news and public affairs programming which meets the highest standards of journalism , and which is fair and unbiased and independent from government, commercial or other interests; and (e) include significant amounts of educational programming, both curriculum – based and informal including educative topics from a wide range of social, political and economic issues such as human rights, health, early childhood development, agriculture, culture, justice and commerce; and (f) enrich the cultural heritage of Zimbabwe by providing support for traditional and contemporary artistic expression; and (g) strive to offer a broad range of services aimed in particular at children, women, the youth and the disabled; and (h) include programmes commissioned from independent producers, and (i) include programmes featuring national sports as well as developmental and minority sports.”