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Zimbabwe's new gold-backed currency sliding on black market

Beijing News 16 Apr 2024
Harare, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's ... Even songs are played on the radio encouraging citizens to embrace the currency, called Zimbabwe Gold - or ZiG - introduced on April 5 trading at 13.56 to the U.S.
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Interview: Jagari of Zambian rock legends WITCH

RNZ 07 Mar 2024
Witch were the most popular Zambian rock band of the 1970s ... Listen to Tony Stamp's interview with Jagari Chanda ... At the time, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Malawi shared one radio station, which broadcast the rock music that would come to influence Witch ... ....
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Zimbabwean minister bans 2 journalists from covering government events

CPJ 05 Mar 2024
Lusaka, March 5, 2024—The minister of state for Zimbabwe’s Midlands Province must immediately rescind an order barring journalists Sydney Mubaiwa and Stephen Chadenga from covering government events, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday.
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Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’ is 50: Why her most covered song has enduring global appeal

The Los Angeles Times 29 Feb 2024
In fact, the Cape Town-based Congo CowboysChris Bakalanga, originally from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Julio Sigauque, originally from Mozambique, and Simon Attwell, originally from Zimbabwe — also knew the song from childhood.
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Botswana Opposition Slams Electoral Body for Benchmarking in Zimbabwe

Beijing News 14 Feb 2024
Utloile Silaigwana, Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) chief elections officer, told journalists in Harare that the Botswana delegation will also learn about election publicity activities using radio and social media.
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100 years of radio in Africa: from propaganda to people’s power

Auburnpub dot com 12 Feb 2024
Radio is thriving across ... But studies estimate radio listenership to be between of the continent’s 1.4 billion population ... Until then radio had been broadcast by wireless transmission ... Resistance radio ... Zimbabwe’s radio sector, for example, is thriving.
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2023 in photos: Wrenching and wonderful, powerful images help tell 2023’s most compelling stories

Independent Record 23 Dec 2023
Two moments, at opposite ends of the human experience ... Rafiq Maqbool, Associated Press. The second scene could not be more different ... Anger ... 7 ... Ngwiza Khumbulani Moyo, a vintage collector, holds an old radio outside his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Feb.
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Sarah Browning: How African violets went from discovery to domestication

Lincoln Journal Star 23 Dec 2023
The original plant was collected by Walter von Saint-Paul-Illaire, after whom the genus was named ... People are also reading… ... Watering ... Ngwiza Khumbulani Moyo, a vintage collector, holds an old radio outside his home in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Feb.
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Why scientists made mini virtual reality goggles for mice

The Banner-Press 08 Dec 2023
This illustration shows the VR setup, with an ""overhead threat"" projected into the top field of view ... Zimbabwe ruling party eyes supermajority in votes without opponents. How conservative radio host's Supreme Court case threatens to upend the courts.
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‘My home’: The Mozambican electrician who moved to Zimbabwe twice

Al Jazeera 12 Jul 2023
With the war still on, Chataika, like thousands of his countrymen, sought refuge in nearby Zimbabwe ... “In Manica, we crossed into Zimbabwe via a railway line and we arrived in Mutare and sold a radio and some java cloth we had,” Chataika said.
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TV BRICS hosts tour to Russia for media persons from BRICS, Africa

Beijing News 01 Jul 2023
Among the participants of the BRICS Global Media Tour, Russian Edition are top managers of media companies, and partners of TV BRICS from Brazil, India, China, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
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Gospel star Everton Mlalazi drops new music featuring Ladysmith Black Mambazo

Independent online (SA) 08 Apr 2023
Mlalazi also highlighted that the “soothing sound” of “Nomakunje” is already a hit with gospel lovers in Zimbabwe, with fans voting it into the number spot on local radio stations such as Star FM, Classic 263 and Sky’s Metro FM.
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HOT 102.7FM shakes up on-air line-up

Independent online (SA) 06 Apr 2023
Murrell shot to prominence in South Africa as 5FM’s afternoon drive-time host in the 1990s, while Parkinson hosted the breakfast show for Zimbabwe national radio station 3FM for nearly a decade, also in the ’90s.
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Moe, Zādok and Mthandazo Gatya celebrate their first Metro FM Music Awards nomination

Independent online (SA) 04 Apr 2023
Zambian South African hip hop DJ, radio host and entrepreneur DJ Venom and Sebastian “Shishiliza” Jameson, the Zimbabwe-born, Botswana-raised multi-instrumentalist, producer, visual artist and music ...
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Many rely on radio broadcasts in Zimbabwe and across Africa

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 31 Mar 2023
HARARE, Zimbabwe -- ... Radio sets are all over the place in Zimbabwe ... Zimbabwe's state radio and a host of community stations offer broadcasts in Shona, Ndebele and 12 other local languages, Masuku said.
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