"For the Tonga people like me, there is something deeply biblical about the word MULONGA, yet it is a modern story too. One of massive but unshared technology. One of plentiful water but perpetual drought."
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Solarpower backup for ZongweFM installed

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Created: Thursday, 09 May 2024 20:09

Andy Kampamu, chairman of the ZongweFM board reports: We are done with the installation of the solar system at Zongwe FM. The project is aimed as backup up power in the absence of the main feeder Zesco.

Kayula Mulenga, who was acting as technical adviser for the local implementing agency Panos Institute Southern Africa in Lusaka confirmed: "The general status is that the solar system has been performing well in the last 5 days after installations, no technical faults on equipment from the time it was installed.

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Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year 2024!

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Created: Thursday, 21 December 2023 18:22

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year 2024!
We wish all our friends, partners and funders a relaxed Festive Season and a peaceful and
prosperous New Year! We strongly appreciate your continous interest, collaboration and support,
Thank you!

 

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SolarPower4RadioZongweFM !! - Call for contributions

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Created: Thursday, 30 November 2023 19:39

Spendenaufruf für die Solar - Energieversorgung der Community Radio Station ZONGWE FM in Sinazongwe / Zambia


A crowdfunding campaign is aiming at the installation of a Solarpower PV system for Radio Zongwe FM. Currently the provision of electricity is hampered by frequent power cuts and load shedding which negatively affects the sensitive radio studio equipment.

Foto: Nyele horns calling as part of a Ngoma Buntibe celebration of the new Zongwe FM Radio Station (by the group Simonga from Siachilaba / Zimbabwe in 2019)

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MOKOOMBA - MULONGA - ALM

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Created: Wednesday, 07 June 2023 10:51

Radio Transfer - Communities in dialogue: A project in the context of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl/Salzkammergut 2024

The concert of the band Mokoomba from Zimbabwe on 24th June at the Old Sawmill Schoenau 8 in Scharnstein / AT is celebrating the building of a Radio Bridge North-South between the Alm and Zambezi rivers. The communication and exchange of stories between pupils at schools in Austria, Zambia and Zimbabwe has already started. It is organised by Radio B138 on the Austrian and Radio Zongwe FM on the Zambian side.

Zongwe FM is a Community Radio station of the Tonga people in Sinazongwe on the Northern shores of Lake Kariba how the dammed Zambezi is called. Since the radio station was set up in 2007, there has been an ongoing collaboration with some Free Radios in Austria, facilitated by Austria-Zimbabwe Friendship Association AZFA in Linz and its partners Kunzwana Trust in Harare and Panos Southern Africa in Lusaka.

Radio B138 is hosting the Radio Bridge at the Old Sawmill Schoenau 8 in Scharnstein in collaboration with Kulturverein Mühldorf and Freies Radio Salzkammergut. The location provides space for some artwork from earlier and ongoing cultural exchanges with the Tonga communities.

The Radio Bridge will be highlighted already on Tuesday 20th June from 19:07 - with a live broadcast by Radio B138 at Schoenau 8 with some radioletters as introduced and co- moderated by our partner Claudia Wegener from radio continental drift   Listen to audios of the correspondence so far: https://archive.org/details/radiocontinentaldrift?tab=collection&query=radio-Bridges+South-North+23

tune in:    https://cba.fro.at/podcast/radio-transfer-communities-in-dialogue

 

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"The official opening of Zongwe Fm has cheered the Sinazongwe Community"

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Created: Tuesday, 29 November 2022 19:47

On November 12th, the Sinazongwe Community on the Zambian shore of Lake Kariba had reason to celebrate the official launch of Radio Zongwe FM with the allocation of an operational license and frequency by the regulatory authorities.

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24 Hours - Hour 15 “Tonga Music Remix”

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Created: Friday, 04 March 2022 08:10

Fadi's Remix of Tonga Music - Another encounter and cultural exchange
with Ngoma Buntibe 'Tonkunst' of the Valley Tonga

https://vimeo.com/683451072

"The music of the Valley Tonga is as extraordinary and distinct as it is beautiful." In memoriam Keith Goddard, the late Zimbabwean human rights activist and composer, „One man One Note“ – Keith Goddard on Tonga Tonkunst: mulonga.net/tonga-culture/219-tonga-tonkunst-one-man-one-note

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KUNZWANA TRUST Revival & the Arts Factory project

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Created: Friday, 20 August 2021 13:46

THE REVIVAL BEGINS with THE ARTS FACTORY project, kick starting the ‘factory’ in support of arts development in Zimbabwe in 2021, with a grant from the Culture Fund of Zimbabwe Trust’s CreativeACTIONS programme, co-funded by the European Union.The Arts Factory services offer a ray of hope at a time when artists of Zimbabwe who - already struggling for economic survival, crippled by the Covid-19 pandemic and with careers in jeopardy - need to envision, plan and prepare for a post-Covid-19 recovery. KUNZWANA TRUST Press Release: Immediate release 13.8.2021

The late Keith Goddard in discussion with a musician at Siachilaba Store, Binga, 2008 (Photo: P Kuthan)

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Women empowerment across the Great River

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Created: Tuesday, 05 January 2021 10:58

Listen to Zubo Trust’s Audio Collection: Bbindawuko Banakazi Fishing Co-op

“The audio recordings of Zubo Trust’s women form a seizable online archive. Based on audio documentation, even the exchange of experiences among women from both sides of the river (or Kariba Lake) could be revived: Zubo women recordings featured in live broadcasts on the community radio station Zongwe FM in Sinazongwe Zambia, just across the Lake form Binga Zimbabwe. Here, Zubo women fishery project caused a small revolution of sorts; because apparently, women in rural Zambia do not yet enjoy such opportunities for economic participation. Relevant radio broadcasts of Zongwe FM featuring recordings from Binga are available in Zubo’s online audio archive (…)”  

excerpt from a recently published article in the German “Graswurzel Revolution”

an English translation of the article is available for download

read more: https://radiocontinentaldrift.wordpress.com/2020/12/31/zubo-audio-collection-bb-coop/

Mulonga 2019 : A Radio Bridge across the waters and continents

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Created: Wednesday, 09 October 2019 08:41

Since 2007 some independent radio initiatives in Austria are supporting the set up and running of Radio ZONGWE FM, the first community radio station at Sinazongwe in the Zambezi Valley on the Northern shore of Lake Kariba. Last year the Sinazongwe community joined efforts with the Sinazongwe District Council to erect a new building for the station on the hilltop overlooking the Lake - still called The Big River or Mulonga in ChiTonga language and tradition. Facilitated by a crowdfunding campaign on the Austrian side the necessary financial resources were made available for the relocation of the radio station from rather cramped conditions at Sinazongwe Basic School in May. This move was organised by the ZONGWE FM team led by the station manager Mr Kennedy Kein Kambole and supported by two radio experts from Austrian Free Radio B138 Kirchdorf - Mr Mike Schedlberger and Mrs Tanja Landerl - and their Zambian counterpart Mr Kayula Faith Mulenga.

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Zongwe FM is broadcasting again

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Created: Monday, 01 July 2019 20:36

broadcasting from the new studio on hilltop overlooking Lake Kariba and the Zambezi valley

Dear Mike & Tanja, dear all, Thank you and all parties involved for your note that the relocation of Zongwe FM studio and transmitter has been completed by the end of May: Zongwe FM is broadcasting again with a far wider outreach. Mission accomplished, Congratulations! TWALUMBA!

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Obituary Chief Sinazongwe RIP

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Created: Wednesday, 16 January 2019 14:18

It is with great sorrow that we received the sad news of Chief Sinazongwe's passing away on
December 26th. We will miss him after coming to know and work with him since 2004.

We remember fondly our first encounter with His Excellency on the Zimbabwean side of the River
Mulonga in Siachilaba and Siansundu when he was leading a strong Budima group to join Simonga
group from Siachilaba in the celebration of the opening of two computer labs at the relevant schools
(see the picture below). Their performances highlighted the fact that Tonga music as the traditional
way to communicate values and vision has nowadays been complemented by modern tools of
communication.

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Good start into 2018 for Zongwe FM in Sinazongwe / Zambia

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Created: Thursday, 01 February 2018 17:55

Zongwe FM station manager Kennedy Kein wrote on 19th January: "our radio has been granted a funding by the (Rural District) Council to build the new radio station up hill (on the Boma). We therefore ask for material support such as adjustable microphone stands, microphones and just other things you mighty think of supporting the radio station. Regards to all the friends in Austria".

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Tales of Resilience: a track record along the artists travelogue

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Created: Friday, 12 September 2014 15:19

compiled using quotes by Time's Up artist Tina Auer from the blog: talesofresilience

First of all have a look at some amazing pictures taken at the photography workshop for and by Siachilaba women in April 2014 under the guidance of two artists from Harare, Calvin Dondo and Nancy Mpalume:
flickr
and read more details about the Siachilaba workshop
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Margaret Moombe listening to her tales at NGZ

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Tonga.Online: Funkfeuer mission accomplished

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Created: Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:53

I hope this communication finds you well. We concluded all our three major trainings with Rupi and Funkfeuer team from Linz. The attendances were impressive. We shall be consolidating participants' views from the evaluation forms they filled and the findings will be shared with you. We will be in the Public Access Point / PAP at Binga Library tomorrow to complete what could have remained unfixed.

Once again I and the team sincerely appreciate the visit to one of the training sessions by the Director of Basilwizi Trust, Frank Mudimba. That was great.

Meanwhile we are experiencing internet challenges for the past four days now.
Thank you.

Josias Mungombe
Basilwizi Trust Binga

more information about the Funkfeuer mission:
mulonga.linz.funkfeuer.at/blog
www.facebook.com/tongaonline

Keith Goddard Obituary

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Created: Saturday, 10 October 2009 15:33

Dear all,

With deep sorrow we have been informed that our friend and Director of Kunzwana Trust Keith Goddard passed away last night, Friday 9 October at St Anne's hospital in Harare, where to he has been admitted two weeks ago with pneumonia.

ImageIt seems really impossible to believe that Keith has gone. What a great loss to all of us, foremost to his mother Pauline but also for the gay and lesbian community of Zimbabwe, GALZ, for the promotion of cultural exchange by Kunzwana Trust and for the Tonga.Online project and the Tonga community at large. Keith has always been in the forefront in pushing for tolerance and appreciation of cultural and sexual differences in society but was also actively involved in broader human rights campaigning and in the fight for access to affordable treatment for all people living with HIV/AIDS. And he was a composer and promoter of cultural diversity and inter-cultural exchange for many years.

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Tonga proverbs, by Isaac Mumpande

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Created: Sunday, 25 November 2007 12:27

Tonga.Online has obtained permission from Isaac Mumpande for uploading of Tonga proverbs from his collection onto the website.
The second part will be added in the near future. We are grateful that authority to upload the book on the website was
solicited for and granted by the writer - twalumba. We tried to look for the soft copy of the book from the publisher but all in vain. In this regard, we
had to re-type the whole book.

Best regards, Pottar Muzamba

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Tonga Sayings, by Isaac Mumpande

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Created: Sunday, 25 November 2007 09:47

This is the part titled "sayings" from Isaac Mumpandes Collection:

 

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Chitonga Dictionary

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Created: Sunday, 20 June 2004 20:49

Mapona!
Welcome to the second edition of the Chitonga Online Dictionary. It was originaly created 1997 when Simonga traveled to Austria. This 2nd edition was done as part of the ICT Workshop in Syansundu in May 2004. Thanks to Mildred, Notie, Lackson, Norman and Kapongo Chipo for their contribution.

Please feel free to mail more words and sentences!

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On the Domainname MULONGA

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Created: Thursday, 01 March 2001 00:00
By Dominic Muntanga
Tonga is synonymous to "the people of the great river". MULONGA is a term which summaries that concept. This is a term deeply rooted in the history that we as Tonga people share, both Zambian and Zimbabwean. For the Tonga people like me, there is something deeply biblical about the word MULONGA, yet it is a modern story too. One of massive but unshared technology. One of plentiful water but perpetual drought.

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Monolith

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Created: Saturday, 21 June 1997 11:42

Listen to Monolith, or to a smaller sample by Keith Goddard, Klaus Holinetz
tonga- six reflections 1997 harare, linz. cd produced by arge zimbabwe friendship association & kunzwana trust; distribution extraplatte ex332-2