This paper zooms-in to the moment of the first African-aimed broadcasts to be aired on South African radio, presented by K. E. Masinga in the Zulu language. These took place from the Durban studios of the South African Broadcasting Company (SABC), in 1941. Innovations in microphone technology, moving from carbon microphones in the 1920s to ribbon microphones by the 1940s, gave fuller timbre to the voice of the radio presenter, and considerably reduced the distractions of unintended noise. Such technological evolutions added to the impact of the voice that would sound first in Zulu on the radio. In the critical cultural scholarship of the region, voice has not received as much scholarly attention as other instruments of information, by which models of technological administration were elaborated, in relation to the racially segregated state and its particular vision of society. This paper is concerned not so much with the fact that African audiences were now welcomed as listeners of broadcasts, but rather the nature of the relationship between themselves and the technology of broadcasting.

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非洲先驱：1940年代，KE Masinga和祖鲁语“无线电之声”

本文将放大由KE Masinga用祖鲁语播出的南非电台播出的首批非洲广播电视节目的时刻。这些活动于1941年在南非广播公司（SABC）的德班工作室进行。麦克风技术的创新，从1920年代的碳素麦克风到1940年代的带状麦克风，都使广播主持人的声音更加饱满，并大大减少了意外噪音的干扰。这样的技术进步增加了声音的影响力，这种声音首先会在祖鲁语中广播到广播中。在该地区的重要文化学术研究中，声音没有像其他信息手段那样受到学术界的关注，通过这种手段来详细阐述技术管理模式，关于种族隔离的国家及其对社会的特殊看法。本文关注的不是非洲观众现在作为广播的收听者而受到欢迎的事实，而是他们自己与广播技术之间关系的性质。