Presenting the report of Zimbabwe’s Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Transport and Communications on the 2007 budget allocations to the Ministry of Information and Publicity, chairman Cde Leo Mugabe told the House of Assembly that the 2007 budget for the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation supports only one new project for external broadcasting - the Shortwave 24/7. However, only capital costs have been allocated.
“While monies have been made available for capital development, no working capital was allocated. This makes it very difficult to operationalise this new project whose main elements are already in place and which is unlikely to attract commercial interest by virtue of its shortwave frequency,” he said.
(Source: The Herald/R netherlands Media Network Weblog)