14 expertise has been supplied by the Chinese government and the jamming has been lauded by government spokesmen. No independent electronic media exist within Zimbabwe due to the restrictive provisions of the Broadcasting Act. The Broadcasting Services Act limits freedom of expression by making it mandatory for broadcasters to receive a licence from a government controlled regulatory body. No licences have been awarded to non-government public broadcasters since this body was established in 2002. Thus the sole television service and all the internal radio stations continue to be under the control of government and continue to broadcast pro-government propaganda. Justice The indicator here is the immediate implementation of court judgments. For reasons given above, over the period of review the defiance of court orders in high profile cases has not been evident. However, in the past there have been numerous examples of government officials and law enforcement agencies refusing to obey court orders. It is very likely that this pattern of flouting of the rule of law will be repeated in the future whenever government sees it as being expedient not to obey such orders. Land reform The situation with regard to land reform is constantly changing as the Government introduces further legislation in this regard in response to people trying to assert their rights. Many of the court orders that were previously disregarded were in relation to land. The object of recent legislation is essentially to provide a cloak of legality to actions that were previously being undertaken unlawfully. Constitutional Amendment No 17, amongst other changes, purports to oust the jurisdiction of the court in relation to all challenges to farm acquisition. As a result, all appeals in this regard to the Administrative Court have been struck off the roll. Most recently, in November 2006, the government repealed the Rural Land Occupiers (Protection from Eviction) Act and introduced the Land (Consequential Provisions) Act. The present procedure for land acquisition is that only persons in possession of “offer letters” issued by the Land Reform Ministry are entitled to farmland. Any person occupying land after it has been designated for acquisition commits a criminal offence. The Rural Land Occupiers (Protection from Eviction) Act was introduced to prevent farmers whose land had been unlawfully occupied from removing the persons who had invaded it. Now “new farmers” that have been allocated land by the government’s offer letter can evict the persons who occupied the land in the first instance. There does not appear to be any transparent procedure for the issuance of the offer letters and there has been no audit of the allocation of land to date since the suppressed “Utete Report” of 2002. Zimbabwe’s Failure to meet the Benchmarks in the Contonou Agreement