The Thursday February 21 edition of the Times newspaper reports the Zimbabwe Information Minister has said short-wave radios are illegal communications devices.
Reportedly hundreds of short-wave radios have been seized in house searches.
The Times story says that for the past eight years the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has been distributing solar/ wind-up radios, manufactured in South Africa.
The article was republished online by the Times sister newspaper The Australian and may still be available at
http://tinyurl.com/ShortWaveRadioBan
The ban has also been reported on The SWLing Post site at
http://swling.com/blog/2013/02/zimbabwe-are-shortwave-radios-now-illegal/
Wind-up/Solar Powered Radios
http://freeplayenergy.com/aid-and-development/encore-player2
Trevor Baylis: I’ve wound up broke despite inventions
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2013/trevor_baylis.htm
Article source: http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2013/short_wave_radios_banned_in_zimbabwe.htm
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