13 newspapers for various offences under this Act such as making false statements. The regulatory body, the Media and Information Commission, continues to be headed by Tafatona Mahosoa, whose antipathy to bodies not sympathetic to government has been noted in court rulings. Mahosoa continues to make intimidatory remarks concerning independent journalists and recently directed his attention to the Law Society of Zimbabwe after it had published concerns relating to the rule of law. In addition, the government continues to place every possible hurdle in the way of Daily News publishers, ANZ. ANZ has had to return to court several times in an attempt to obtain legally prescribed registration (under the restrictive provisions of AIPPA) so that publications of the independent daily may recommence. This saga of obstructionism has stretched over a period of three years. The latest application in this regard was heard in the High Court in early October, 2006 and judgment is awaited. There is little doubt, if judgment is in favour of ANZ, that government will appeal to further delay the registration. The last appeal took a year to be heard by Zimbabwe’s Supreme Court. Journalists and independent papers continue to face harassment, the most recent being a raid by police on the independent weekly, The Zimbabwean on 6 October, 2006. The paper is published from outside the country and copies brought into Zimbabwe. Copies of the paper were taken by police who seemed concerned with investigating the newpaper’s authority to import the publication. The government has continued its manoeuvres to place the Mirror newspaper under the ownership of the state’s security agency, through the purchase of shares in the proprietary company. Although charges of broadcasting without a licence brought against radio journalists, staffers and trustees of the radio station Voice of the People (which broadcasts from outside Zimbabwe after it offices were bombed in 2002) were withdrawn in September 2006, as the benchmark requires, this was not at the instance of the state, but occurred after a court refused to grant the prosecution a fourth request for a postponement by the state. By persisting in this prosecution without sufficient evidence, it is clear that the policy of harassment is set to continue. In addition, the Zimbabwe government has forced all radio stations broadcasting to Zimbabwe – Voice of the People, SW Radio and Voice of America’s Studio 7 broadcast, to change their frequencies to short - wave after jamming their medium wave signals. The majority of Zimbabweans do not have access to short - wave radio. However, even the short - wave signal now also has reportedly suffered interference28. Equipment for this jamming and technical 28 Weekly Media Update Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe 31/06/06 Zimbabwe’s Failure to meet the Benchmarks in the Contonou Agreement