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\"250px-sw_radio_africa_logo\"<\/a>From Journalism.co.uk<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“We just need old media. We just need radio. We just need people to be allowed to listen to radio,” explains Gerry Jackson, the founder of Zimbabwean radio station SW Radio Africa<\/a> (SWRA).<\/p>\n

“Shortwave and text messages are only real way to get into Zimbabwe…[b]ecause our focus is on serving people in the country,” explains Jackson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From Journalism.co.uk: “We just need old media. We just need radio. We just need people to be allowed to listen to radio,” explains Gerry Jackson, the founder of Zimbabwean radio station SW Radio Africa (SWRA). “Shortwave and text messages are only real way to get into Zimbabwe…[b]ecause our focus is on serving people in the […]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[135,134,136],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","tag-shortwave-radio-africa","tag-swra","tag-zimbabwe"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5B","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10297,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/swra-to-end-shortwave-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":347,"position":0},"title":"SWRA to end shortwave broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"July 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The clandestine station, Shortwave Radio Africa, announced today that it\u00a0will end\u00a0shortwave radio broadcasts to Zimbabwe. 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