You have welcomed us into your homes since our first shortwave broadcast on 19th December 2001.
Our broadcasts will continue on our website, via Channel Zim through TV decoders, and by various other forms of new media.
We know how much these shortwave broadcasts have meant to our listeners in more remote areas who have so little access to news and information, and we sincerely regret that we will no longer be able to provide this service.
We would like to thank our listeners who have been such loyal supporters for so many years and also for their willingness to share the stories of their lives with us on our Callback program. This has allowed people all over the world to have a better understanding of the many crises that Zimbabweans continue to face.
We can only hope that one day, sooner rather than later, there is real media freedom that allows Zimbabweans, wherever they are in the country, easy access to what is a basic human right – freedom of information and expression.
Post published in: Africa News
S W Radio Africa is stopping its week day broadcast because of the financial squeeze affecting everyone else in Zimbabwe. We are all the victims of the economic meltdown hitting the country like one of those disasters brought on by El Nino or swarms of locust except that this economic meltdown in man-made, Mugabe-made. 34 years of gross mismanagement and rampant corrup-tion have taken their toll of the Zimbabwe economy and now the economy is in ICU and poverty in everywhere.
S W Radio Africa did a great job retelling “our horror stories, lived with us through our anguish and cried with us at each inhumanity” as Cathy Buckle, one of the regular contributors on the radio station said. But they also encourage us to think and look for the way out of this hell-on-earth Mugabe and Zanu PF were dragging us into.
The Shona have a saying; “Chava chigondora chava chi’gombe kutadza kutunga hurama hacho!” (A calf yearling with sprouting horns has only itself to blame if it cannot defend itself.) If Zimbabweans have not yet learnt to think for themselves out of man-made situation after 13 years of encouragement from S W Radio Africa then we only have ourselves to blame!
Zimbabwe’s economic meltdown is real; it hitting everyone very hard and, until something is done to get the national economy back on track, things are set to get even worse. If there was ever a time for Zimbabweans to wake up from their sloth-like slumber this is that time. The people are naïve to expect Mugabe and Zanu PF to led the nation out of this mess; it was the tyrannical regime that dragged the nation into this mess to gratify their insatiable appetite for power and wealth, only they care about now is how they are going to hang on to both in these turbulent days!
If Zimbabwe is ever going to get out of this hell-hole Mugabe landed us then it is the people themselves who will have to think of a way out and not Mugabe or Zanu PF. S W Radio Africa has done a great job in preparing the nation for this moment; if we fail them it is our own doing!
Maybe its good :)) . Who do you thing ‘defend’ you from Obama and other western bastards? USA ane EU is Fascism, Magabe is quite ‘good guy’ in these backgrounf