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History of the Work in South Africa 

History of the World Tomorrow broadcast into South Africa:

The World Tomorrow commences broadcasting from Radio Lourenço Marques according to the “Good News on God's Work in South Africa,” Good News, January 1982, p. 12. It states: “The Work of God in southern Africa was introduced into southern Africa in 1954 when the World Tomorrow program began to be broadcast over Radio Lourenço Marques in the then Portuguese colony of Mozambique.” Herbert Armstrong wrote in the 23 August 1956 Coworker Letter that: “We had been forced to go on Radio Lourenco-Marques, just outside the border of South Africa. And this comprehensive survey of listening habits in South Africa had disclosed the astounding fact that The WORLD TOMORROW has more listeners in South Africa than all of the Network stations inside of South Africa, combined! It is simply OVERWHELMING!” and in the 23 January 1980 Coworker Letter: “From 1954 to 1972 we broadcasted half-hour programs over Radio Lourenco Marques. 1975-1977, broadcasted over Rhodesian Broadcasting Corporation. 1977 to now, Radio Swaziland.”

“We were still on Radio Luxembourg, world’s most powerful commercial station, at 11:30 p.m., Mondays [1956]. We were on the three superpower bands of Radio Ceylon. From this we received considerable mail from far-off Burma, Malaya and Singapore. Also from India, Ceylon, and portions of eastern Africa. We were broadcasting once a week over Radio Lourenço Marques, at the border of the Republic of South Africa. By March, 1956, we were broadcasting once a week over Radio Formosa.” (Autobiography of Herbert W Armstrong, ch 62)

“BY JANUARY, 1958, the World Tomorrow program was being broadcast over every inhabited continent on earth. We were using more than four million watts of radio power every week. We were broadcasting from Okinawa, from Mozambique into the Republic of South Africa, and into India, over into Burma and the East Indies, and into Eastern Africa by the three superpower beams of Radio Ceylon, besides Radio Luxembourg, world’s most powerful station in Europe -- and beamed over the British Isles." (Autobiography of Herbert W Armstrong, ch 70)

“Also, beginning on the same date [4 June], the broadcast started on 100,000 watt Radio Lakeland from Malawi. The transmitting antennas are arranged to beam the signal into South Africa, and it should be heard easily throughout Mozambique, South Africa, Rhodesia, and probably even Zambia. We did some monitoring of the station while it was still operating on 10,000 watts and it was heard all the way to Cape Town. The time is 10:30 p.m. daily, which is a good time for that part of the world and for the frequency we're on. This is by far the biggest door that has ever opened up to us on the African continent.” (Ronald Dart, Ministerial Bulletin, 13 June 1972, p. 66) It was 9760 kHz transmission.

Comment: my Uncle Ron wrote to me in 13 April 1993 and mentioned that he was listening to the broadcast in 1956. He used to talk to me when I was a kid (and others) about many of the Church's teachings, but he never joined the Church.