Radio Dialogue was founded back in 2001 with one central aim to establish a community radio station in Bulawayo that would give its people a platform to tell their stories, celebrate their diversity and promote their development. Not a radical plan in most countries but Zimbabwe had never had an independent radio station.
At independence in 1980, ZANU-PF inherited the Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation. The only major change that they sanctioned was to change it from RBC to ZBC Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. It remained a state-owned radio, which was used to promote state and ZANU-PF propaganda.
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