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The Independent (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
... problems and attempts by the Zimbabwean government to block the signal.The station was founded by Gerry Jackson, a Zimbabwean journalist who used to present a music programme for the state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) in Harare. During the food riots of 1997, Jackson took phone calls from concerned listeners. "People were phoning the studio all the time asking...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
... 19, the Institute for Human Rights and Development in Africa and two proprietors of Capital Radio, Gerry Jackson and Michael Auret Jnr, challenges various sections of the Broadcasting Services Act as being inconsistent with the African Charter on Human Rights."For the record, we lodged this communication in August 2005. The ACHPR promised to be finished with the matter at its 37th...
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Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
... minister Tony Blair, calling them "international terrorists" and comparing them to Adolf Hitler.Gerry Jackson, from the expatriate Zimbabwe radio station SW Radio Africa that broadcasts from London, told Reuters: "It is outrageous that he [Mugabe] has been invited to any international forum when he is involved in a state-sponsored, incredibly violent campaign against the opposition."A...
