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The radio heroine defying Mugabe's heavies



Updated 21 July 2008

The leading light in the fight for a liberalisation of the airwaves.

Started Capital Radio in Zimbabwe and began broadcasting from the Monomotapa Hotel in defiance of monopolistic broadcast laws.

Security services raided the hotel and seized the equipment.

Instituted a landmark fight in the Supreme Court which exposed the illegality of the broadcast laws.

Came to the United Kingdom and set up SW Radio Africa.

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