{"id":6935,"date":"2013-07-27T09:40:23","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:40:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6935"},"modified":"2013-07-27T09:40:23","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T13:40:23","slug":"brian-hongwe-reports-on-importance-of-shortwave-radios-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/brian-hongwe-reports-on-importance-of-shortwave-radios-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Hongwe reports on importance of shortwave radios in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Zimbabwe-Map.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5899\" alt=\"Zimbabwe-Map\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Zimbabwe-Map-270x300.gif\" width=\"270\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Zimbabwe-Map-270x300.gif 270w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Zimbabwe-Map-90x100.gif 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to\u00a0<a title=\"Check out Dave's excellent ham radio blog!\" href=\"http:\/\/aa7ee.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dave<\/a>\u00a0for sharing this excellent radio documentary from the BBC World Service show, <em><a title=\"The Fifth Floor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01cbxcz\" target=\"_blank\">The Fifth Floor<\/a>. <\/em>In this brief report, reporter Brian Hongwe clearly explains why police are seizing shortwave radios and arresting those who own them in the run up to the <a title=\"Check out our previous posts on the topic\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/zimbabwe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zimbabwe<\/a> elections.<\/p>\n<p><em>Hint: Information = power \/ Shortwave radio = information \/ Those in power\u00a0fear shortwave radio<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click and save.\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TheFifthFloor7262013\/the-fifth-floor-7-26-2013.MP3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> (or use the embedded player below) to listen to this short segment or listen to the entire program&#8211;definitely worth it!&#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"BBC World Service The Fifth Floor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/p01cbxcz\" target=\"_blank\">on The Fifth Floor&#8217;s web page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheFifthFloor7262013\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This post has been tagged in our ever-growing collection labeled: <a title=\"Why shortwave radio?\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/why-shortwave-radio\" target=\"_blank\">Why Shortwave Radio?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to\u00a0Dave\u00a0for sharing this excellent radio documentary from the BBC World Service show, The Fifth Floor. In this brief report, reporter Brian Hongwe clearly explains why police are seizing shortwave radios and arresting those who own them in the run up to the Zimbabwe elections. Hint: Information = power \/ Shortwave radio = information [&hellip;]<\/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":[56,3,26,43,1167],"tags":[327,4082,2051,84,136,2050],"class_list":["post-6935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-bbc-world-service","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-the-fifth-floor","tag-why-shortwave-radio","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-elections"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1NR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5836,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/zimbabwe-door-to-door-search-for-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":6935,"position":0},"title":"Zimbabwe: door-to-door search for radios","author":"Thomas","date":"March 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: SW Radio Africa) On Friday police in Rusape went door-to-door to houses belonging to known MDC-T supporters, in search of shortwave radios. 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The government of Zimbabwe apparently fears the little self-powered shortwave radio\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"The shortwave version of the Eton Microlink FR160 is one of the noted \"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/FR160.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5952,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/zimbabwe-more-police-raids-in-search-of-shortwave-radios\/","url_meta":{"origin":6935,"position":3},"title":"Zimbabwe: More police raids in search of shortwave radios","author":"Thomas","date":"March 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"In this case it's not a child who was targeted in the raid, rather, the Prime Minister's Principal Director: (Source: SW Radio Africa) A top lawyer, Beatrice Mtetwa, is being held by Harare police after she reacted to early morning raids leading to the arrest of Thabani Mpofu, Principal Director\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Zimbabwe-Map","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Zimbabwe-Map-270x300.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3557,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/in-zimbabwe-if-you-want-to-hear-the-truth-listen-to-shortwave-radio-africa-to-listen-to-voa\/","url_meta":{"origin":6935,"position":4},"title":"In Zimbabwe, &#8220;if you want to hear the truth&#8230;listen to Shortwave Radio Africa&#8230;listen to VOA&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"May 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a brilliant piece on the lack of press freedom in Zimbabwe and the importance of shortwave radio. 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