Bush Radio (South Africa)
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Format | community radio |
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First air date | April 25, 1993 |
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Website | Bush Radio |
Bush Radio is a popular and pioneering community
Early life
Bush Radio started out as a project of the Cassette Education Trust during the last stages of the struggle against apartheid.[2] Its programmes were distributed on cassette tape.[2] Many of its volunteers and programmers were students from the University of the Western Cape, which did not at the time have its own campus radio station.[3]
After being denied broadcast licenses on two occasions by South Africa's broadcast regulator, the station launched as an illegal
In its original incarnation, the station was led by Edric Gorfinkel.[2] Once the station became a licensed operation, its management was taken over by Zane Ibrahim,[2] who oversaw the station's transformation from an anti-apartheid activist project into a broader community-oriented broadcaster.[2] Station volunteer Lumko Mtimde was also tapped to head the National Community Radio Forum, an organization which helped to establish a legislative and collaborative framework for the establishment and expansion of community radio in South Africa,[3] and later became a member of South Africa's new broadcast regulator, the Independent Broadcasting Authority.[3]
In 2000 Bush Radio received one of the
Services
In addition to the radio service, Bush Radio also offers media training, multimedia and community development programs.
References
- ^ Kiewit, Lester (16 Aug 2019). "Desperate days for local papers, radio". Mail & Guardian. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Community radio in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Bush Radio in Cape Town" Archived April 10, 2013, at the Wayback Machine. Transformations, February 2005.
- ^ a b c d "The road to community radio". Rhodes Journalism Review, September 2004.
External links
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