{"id":10472,"date":"2014-08-08T05:43:41","date_gmt":"2014-08-08T09:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10472"},"modified":"2014-08-08T05:43:41","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T09:43:41","slug":"sw-radio-africa-lost-donor-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/sw-radio-africa-lost-donor-support\/","title":{"rendered":"SW Radio Africa lost donor support"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SWRadioAfrica\"<\/a>According to Radio VOP<\/a>, SW Radio Africa’s closure<\/a> is due to a loss of donor support. Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader, Richard Cuff, for the tip:<\/p>\n

(Source: Radio VOP<\/a>)<\/p>\n

“London-based SW Radio Africa has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing donor support.<\/p>\n

SW Radio Africa, a non-profit station which broadcasts daily into Zimbabwe on shortwave, is winding up it operations on August 10.<\/p>\n

Gerry Jackson, SW Radio Africa founder and editor, confirmed the impeding closure of the radio station which used to air daily between 6 and 9pm Zimbabwean time.<\/p>\n

[…]The radio station was set up by a group of Zimbabwean journalists and started airing on December 19, 2001. The North London-based independent radio station had gathered a growing number of listeners, with its existence infuriating the Zimbabwean government.<\/p>\n

[…]Staff at the radio station said they were disappointed that donor withdrawal had led to the downfall of the radio station.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full news item at\u00a0Radio VOP<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Radio VOP, SW Radio Africa’s closure is due to a loss of donor support. Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Richard Cuff, for the tip: (Source: Radio VOP) “London-based SW Radio Africa has been forced to cease broadcasting after losing donor support. SW Radio Africa, a non-profit station which broadcasts daily into Zimbabwe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,869,3,43],"tags":[4109,135,1767,3158,134,136],"class_list":["post-10472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-clandestine","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-clandestine","tag-shortwave-radio-africa","tag-sw-radio-africa","tag-sw-radio-africa-closure","tag-swra","tag-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2IU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10448,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/sw-radio-africa-to-close-down-august-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":10472,"position":0},"title":"SW Radio Africa to close down August 10","author":"Thomas","date":"August 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Only a few weeks ago we mentioned that the clandestine station, SW Radio Africa, stopped\u00a0broadcasting via shortwave. 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As we've posted before, Zimbabwe is a country that does not exactly embrace free press. Indeed, Mugabe\u00a0has even been known to order the\u00a0confiscation of self-powered shortwave radios from citizens. 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