Radio Freedom
Radio Freedom was the radio propaganda arm of the African National Congress during the anti-Apartheid struggle from the 1970s through the 1990s. While the broadcasts were from different radio stations (including those of Tanzania, Zambia, Angola, Ethiopia, and Madagascar[1]), their station identifications all sported the trademark introduction familiar to many from the KLF song "3 a.m. Eternal": machine-gun fire, followed by a variation of
This is Radio Freedom, the voice of the African National Congress and its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe...
Winnie Mandela[2] and several people featured in Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony credit Radio Freedom as a significant comforting, rallying, and organizing factor in the fight against Apartheid.
Listening to Radio Freedom in Apartheid-era South Africa was a crime carrying a penalty of up to eight years in prison.
[edit] References
- ^ "Southern African Clandestines of the 1970's". http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/african_clandestines.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-11.
- ^ Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. "Zambia: Midwife of Our Freedom, Says Winni". http://www.zambiapretoria.net/news/00006.html. Retrieved 2006-10-11.[dead link]
[edit] External links
- African History on the Internet - Colonial Period
- Search the ANC website for "radio freedom"
- Some music with extensive Radio Freedom quotes
- Radio Freedom: Voice of the African National Congress... (Documentary CD)
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