YES, there is a dark side to studios! "Its better to call it the Harare Broadcasting corporation (HBC) than to call it the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC)," commented one person on the Radio Dialogue website. ZBC will soon be closing the Bulawayo and Gweru studios as the company is said to be looking for measures to restructure its expenditure.
As the issue is addressed on Newsday (a Zimbabwean Newspaper), sources close to the corporation disclosed that they had been alerted by the management that the station was being relocated to Harare. I wonder what is going to happen to hundreds of employees that were employed in these two stations; though in a far and very obvious view, one can see that many are going to be left jobless and suffering as the Corporation was a public service company that provided an economic hideout for many.
As said in Newsday, when the Zimbabwean Minister of Information and Publicity was contacted over the issue, he neither denied nor confirmed to the impending restructuring exercise.
The dark side of the matter: Why then is the studio being relocated to Harare, and not Bulawayo or Gweru? Remember, ZBC has been on various times and on various publications attacked for being monopolistic. One may then wonder why it has to be relocated to Harare and not Bulawayo or Gweru...or perhaps so that they (the elite) can then advance to RADICAL MONOPOLISM, if there is such a thing?
On the other hand, Newsday said that "Dube's board was unceremoniously booted out last November for awarding high salaries that bordered on illegality to the ZBC executives while junior staffers went unpaid for half a year."
The question still remains: Do they have to relocate the Bulawayo and Gweru ZBC stations to Harare in order to restructure the company's expenditure, and WHY???
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