'Too Much Propaganda' - Zimbabwe's Pirates of the Airwaves Look to South Africa: SouthernAfrica SouthAfrica Zimbabwe
any more diverse or varied.
For the last few years, John has become accustomed to fielding urgent phone calls or messages at odd hours of the day. Typically, this leads to a conversation with a desperate client that ends with John sliding into his overalls, gathering his toolbox and makeshift wooden ladder, and hitting the road. His wife used to get anxious at his sudden callouts but is now used to them.
"This has been my life for years now and I do this for a living and to feed my family," says John, a satellite dish installer who learned the trade by watching DIY videos and helping more experienced installers.who need their dishes to be refocused, often just before a big football match or the screening of a popular South African soap opera.
For these jobs, John puts up the satellite dish and then calls a contact in South Africa to activate the decoder. He charges clients $10-15 for the service and completes about five such jobs each week. Since Openview launched in 2013, John has helped countless happy customers access their twenty-plus channels, spanning news and sport to movies and cartoons.Breaking a monopoly
The airwaves in Zimbabwe have long been a restricted environment. For about four decades, the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation was the only free-to-air television channel and was widely seen as a mouthpiece of the ruling ZANU-PF party. In 2020, the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe issued licenses to
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