SABANews

SABANews SABANews is the regional news agency of the Southern African Broadcasting Association, which groups Human interest stories were high on the agenda.

SABANews was first set up as a joint venture of SABA and the Inter Press Service Africa Desk in Harare, assisted with funds by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation in the initial phase, as well as equipment provided by IPS. The editorial/coordinating centre was staffed by a Senior Editor, and Assistant Editor as well as one other Editor from a member station, attached for six weeks each. The SABANews bu

lletins consisted of stories provided by newsrooms of member stations and
originated by the editorial centre itself. The editorial centre worked from Monday to Saturday noon – in addition it is on standby for urgent stories which break overnight or over the weekend. Each day, before 0930 hrs Zimbabwean time, each participating radio station faxed to the editorial centre items of regional interest and/or major importance for inclusion in the First Edition of SABANews, which was transmitted to the member stations between 1100 hrs and 1130 hrs for inclusion in their mid-day bulletins. All material for the Second Edition reached Harare by 1530 hrs, and was distributed between 1630 hrs and 1700 hrs. Every member station provided at least two stories for each edition. In addition the centre would welcome clippings of major stories from newspapers. Stories included, apart from the major news events of the day, political, economic, social, developmental items, as well as information on sports, environment, health, culture and gender issues, etc. To speed up delivery to the centre stories were faxed as they were and the centre would edit them for regional consumption. All newsrooms involved were responsible for following up news stories as and when required. SABANews suspended operations from 2002-13 after the operating partner, IPS, relocated to South Africa. The SABA General Assembly decided in 2011 to revive the project, which happened in October 2013. This time the news agency was hosted by the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Centre, ZBC. Less than two years after its revival, SABANews relaunched the actualities/current affairs version of the project, SADC Calling, also a reap and use service. Apart from the two schemes, SABANews is also charged with the training of staffers from the SABA member stations in different areas of both radio and television broadcasting.

Greetings to you all our SADC Family. It has been far too long since the start of the discord that has been deterring us...
02/04/2026

Greetings to you all our SADC Family.
It has been far too long since the start of the discord that has been deterring us from being.
As you all may know, we have been almost inactive for the past six years.
But we have been fighting for the survival of our project, albeit quietly.
It is now quite clear the regional flagship project of the original Southern African Broadcasting Association, SABA, is history unless we save it.
SABANews is currently active on the WhatsApp platform due to lack of funds.
SABANews is run on funds from SABA member stations and from other sources including the United Nations.
While the current SABA Board headed by Stanley Similo, the CEO of the Namibia national broadcaster has continued to claim to be helping improve broadcasting in the region, one wonders how that can be the situation.
When SABA came into being, as we will demonstrate, its objectives were quite clear. (Details available)
The organisation was as visible as any other SADC regional scheme.
But the current board of directors have come up with a milk-cow for a group that seems not to care about the primary initiative.
SABA needs to account for all the years the region has been without Sabanews daily bulletins, the weekly radio programme - SADC Calling and the monthly TV documentaries of Beyond Our Borders.
We are getting back on air. And let no sane official try to stop us this time.

18/03/2026
19/01/2026

Mvuma calls for attention now

19/01/2026

Very interesting and eye opening

This is what happened to Athens Mine stadium dressing room.And Mvuma seems to have given up all hope now
11/01/2026

This is what happened to Athens Mine stadium dressing room.
And Mvuma seems to have given up all hope now

20/01/2025

Greetings everyone out there.
This is to inform you we will soon be sharing Africa news daily, starting soon.
We have been offline for a while. Yes. But we are now back.

10/12/2024

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