Such is the paranoia in President Robert Mugabeâ€™s ZANU PF regime that broadcast laws that deliberately prevent alternative opinion are entrenched in the legislative DNA. The positive spinoff of this scenario has been a proliferation of shortwave and Internet broadcast stations spanning the globe, the most popular being VOA Studio 7Â based in Washington DC, Voice of the People in Botswana and Violetâ€™s own SW Radio Africa in England.