Khulumani FM, also known as KFM95.0 is a provincial radio station that broadcasts from the metropolitan province of

Bulawayo Bulawayo (, ; Ndebele: ''Bulawayo'') is the second largest city in Zimbabwe, and the largest city in the country's Matabeleland region. The city's population is disputed; the 2022 census listed it at 665,940, while the Bulawayo City Council ...

Matabeleland Matabeleland is a region located in southwestern Zimbabwe that is divided into three provinces: Matabeleland North, Bulawayo, and Matabeleland South. These provinces are in the west and south-west of Zimbabwe, between the Limpopo and Zam ...

region. It was launched on March 2, 2018 to cater for the audiences in the province and surrounding areas within a 60 km radius. The station is based in ZBC's Montrose Studios in Bulawayo. The station was positively welcomed by Bulawayo residents, artists, and businesses as an additional flavour to complement the commercial radio station Skyz Metro FM in the same city. It broadcasts in 7 languages, namely English, Ndebele, Xhosa, Kalanga,

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, Sotho and

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. The station is fully owned, operated, and controlled by the state broadcaster and is not a community radio station. It is, however, fully focused on informing, entertaining, and educating the communities in Bulawayo and Matabeleland region. Being a state controlled, this means that the station's news reports and current affairs are not fully impartial. The station has gained a huge following since launch, and most of its programming is informative, with notable highly interactive

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. The news bulletins are broadcast in 6 languages of the region and predominantly in English. The music playlist is predominantly, but not exclusively,

Nguni Nguni may refer to: *Nguni languages * Nguni cattle *Nguni people The Nguni people are a Bantu ethnic group from South Africa, with off-shoots in neighbouring countries in Southern Africa. Swazi (or Swati) people live in both South Africa and E ...

from

region,

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and

Eswatini Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its ...

. The station aims to promote local artists within the region. Music from across

Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...

and the rest of the world, especially

pop Pop or POP may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Music * Pop music, a musical genre Artists * POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade * Pop!, a UK pop group * Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band Albums * ''Pop'' (G ...

, RnB,

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and

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica in the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay" was the first popular song to use the ...

is also included on most of the station's playlists.

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