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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Short-wave radios banned in Zimbabwe<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The Thursday February 21 edition of the Times newspaper reports the Zimbabwe Information Minister has said short-wave radios are illegal communications devices.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Reportedly hundreds of short-wave radios have been seized in house searches.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">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.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The article was republished online by the Times sister newspaper The Australian and may still be available at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ShortWaveRadioBan">http://tinyurl.com/ShortWaveRadioBan</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The ban has also been reported on The SWLing Post site at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://swling.com/blog/2013/02/zimbabwe-are-shortwave-radios-now-illegal/">http://swling.com/blog/2013/02/zimbabwe-are-shortwave-radios-now-illegal/</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Wind-up/Solar Powered Radios<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://freeplayenergy.com/aid-and-development/encore-player2">http://freeplayenergy.com/aid-and-development/encore-player2</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Trevor Baylis: I've wound up broke despite inventions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2013/trevor_baylis.htm"><span lang="EN-US">http://www.southgatearc.org/news/february2013/trevor_baylis.htm</span></a>
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