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Radio was originally broadcast in English and Afrikaans via shortwave from the South African Broadcasting Corporation's facilities in South Africa. The SABC established a local FM transmitter network in November 1969, relaying Radio South Africa, Radio Suid-Afrika, and Springbok Radio, and establishing a number of services in native languages, including Radio Ovambo, broadcasting in the ...
Today the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) is the public broadcaster and offers a "National Radio" in English and nine language services in locally spoken languages. The nine private radio stations in the country are mainly English-language channels, except for Kosmos 94.1 ( Afrikaans ) and Radio Omulunga ( Ovambo ).
Newspaper Circulation First issued Languages Ownership Website The Namibian: 40,000 (2010) [1] 1985 English, Oshiwambo Free Press of Namibia [2]: www.namibian.com.na: Namibian Sun ...
The NBC is the successor to the South Africa–run South West African Broadcasting Corporation (SWABC), which was modeled on the original SABC. Like the radio services of the NBC, the television service tries to cater to all the linguistic audiences in Namibia, although the dominant language is English (Namibia's official language). [4]
The Fishrot scandal was the first of a series of highly publicized scandals to hit Namibia. Many allies of the SWAPO Party however viewed the release of the documents as a means to destabilize the liberation movement among voters as it was an election period. The ruling SWAPO went on to have its lowest achievement in any election since 1990 ...
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The newspaper exposed human rights violations by South Africa's occupying forces and was thus perceived as overly critical and pro-SWAPO by the South African government.. Even the name of the newspaper irritated the South African administration as they preferred the land to be called South West Africa, whereas Namibia was a notion closely related to the independence movem