SW Radio Africa – the Independent Voice of Zimbabwe – is once again being jammed by government authorities. Station Manager Gerry Jackson says recently all medium wave transmissions were jammed and the station returned to shortwave – but after a few weeks this has also been jammed. It would appear that the news bulletin is being specifically targeted.
Jackson says this is clearly because a programme of organised, peaceful resistance has begun in Zimbabwe and is also ahead of the advertised protests by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions, scheduled to begin on 13 September.
Jackson deplores the fact that government believes it can hold on to power by blocking access to freedom of information and expression.