Calling all Cape Town musicians…

How to submit your music

If you would like to submit your music to Bush Radio do the following:

Email the track in MP3 format (DO NOT SEND links)

Technical details for MP3:

• Sample rate – 44.1kHz or 48kHz
• Audio Quality: minimum 192 Kbps  maximum 256 Kbps
• “Tag” the audio files metadata such as the title, artist, album, track number or other information about the file’s contents correctly.

Also include the following in your email:

• Track title:
• Artist/s:
• Composer:
• Publisher:
• Country and City of origin:
• Email:
• telephone:

This information assists us ensuring that we submit the correct details to SAMRO and ICASA.

Please note that submission of a track DOES NOT mean automatic inclusion on the Bush Radio playlist.

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When you do it, do it with passion like Oppie Yaart!

Every day at Bush Radio we offer a platform for people to talk about the issues and challenges that affect them. Encouraging active citizenship and changing how the Cape Flats is portrayed, how we see ourselves, each other and our land. This is our little way of recognising the strength, resilience and beauty we possess.

We don’t consider ourselves experts on any particular subject, but we provide a space (through 89.5 FM, online and social media) where people can help change their communities.

Our communities know the challenges that face them, and in most cases those very communities have innovative solutions to these challenges.

To quote Bob Marley – “None but ourselves can free our minds” and in line with the Bush Radio philosophy – “Don’t curse the darkness, light a candle” – we want to highlight the work of Oppie Yaart, and invite you to listen to an interview that inspired us this week.

Related: Good News This Week

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Cruising with the Morning Cruise

Lots of activity takes place before and after the Morning Cruise team goes into the on-air studio

The programme includes elements like interviews, jobshop, this day in history, birthdays and much more.

Catch the Morning Cruise every weekday from 10am to 1pm on 89.5FM in Cape Town or worldwide via www.bushradio.co.za

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Let us help your business grow

Would you like us to help build your brand? Call Wayne on 0214483277 or email sales@bushradio.co.za and we will design an ad package that suits your needs and budget.

Good News This Week

One of the many sayings at Bush Radio is “don’t curse the darkness, light a candle” and in these times it seems particularly hard. When we came across an illustrator called Amii James from the UK we reached out and asked if we could share some of the work on our blog.

Amii is doing a series of work called “Good News This Week” – check out some of them out below or visit the facebook page.

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#restart2021 with MTN

Recharge with MTN for R10 or more and stand a chance to win your share of R 50 000 to go towards school fees, uniforms and stationery for the year #restart2021

Send your motivation via text or voice-note to 078 999 9988 to be one of 10 lucky winners.

Use the code: BUSH, your name and surname along with your motivation to enter.

Celebrating World Radio Day #CapeTown to #NewYork #BushRadio #WHRU

Video clip of Bush Radio streaming live in New York

Listen to the Bush Radio / WRHU broadcast

The broadcast consisted of a “Taste of Cape Town with Wayne McKay, Lerato Mashile and Mitchum George followed by the WRHU team interviewing a Bush Radio panel consisting of:

• Lumko Mtimde – Special Advisor in the Minister in the Presidency and a founding member of Bush Radio
• Brenda Leonard – Managing Director of Bush Radio
• Juanita Williams – Managing Editor of AllAfrica – former Bush Radio news editor
• Trevor Davids – a media specialist, entrepreneur and Bush Radio volunteer engaged in developing radio programmes
• Adrian Louw – Bush Radio Programme Integrator and media trainer

From the Cape Flats to NY #WorldRadioDay #NewWorldNewRadio #WRD2021 #radio #BushRadio #WRHU

This year in the lead up to World Radio Day, Bush Radio was invited to participate in a broadcast with WRHU Radio Hofstra University 88.7 FM in the United States as part of their global celebration.

Join us this Friday, 12 February at 3pm as we take the Cape Flats to New York and beyond.

Wayne McKay, Lerato Mashile and Mitchum George will host a “Taste of Cape Town” and this will be followed by the WRHU team interviewing Bush Radio Alumni and discussing the power of community media, its role in Africa, challenges, innovative radio programming, training and the impact of the station in Africa and globally.

The panel to be interviewed will consist of:

• Lumko Mtimde – Special Advisor in the Minister in the Presidency and a founding member of Bush Radio
• Brenda Leonard – Managing Director of Bush Radio
• Juanita Williams – Managing Editor of AllAfrica – former Bush Radio news editor
• Trevor Davids – a media specialist, entrepreneur and Bush Radio volunteer engaged in developing radio programmes
• Adrian Louw – Bush Radio Programme Integrator and media trainer

*Proclaimed in 2011 by the Member States of UNESCO, and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2012 as an International Day, February 13 became World Radio Day (WRD). This year WRD is divided into three subthemes:

• Evolution – The world changes, radio evolves.
• Innovation – The world changes, radio adapts and innovate.
• Connection – The world changes, radio connects.

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A short virtual tour of #BushRadio (audio on)

Just in case you COVID-19 is robbing you of your physical station tour, we thought we’d throw this together.

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Goodbye Sledge – Ebrahim Linneveldt RIP

A gentle giant in Cape Town’s rich music and activist history has fallen.

Ebrahim Linneveldt, known to many as simply Sledge passed away earlier this week.

Amongst all his many activities Sledge was also a Bush Radio volunteer and used to host a Sunday programme called “Gister se Dinge” – A programme hosted by various other Cape Town legends like Vincent Kolbe, Joe Schaffers, Zelda Benjamin and more.

Host of Jazz on Bush, Dr Victor Davids recalled his memory of Sledge; “On 5 January 2000,at the welcoming function of Jazzathon held at West End, I was introduced to an amazing soul that was larger than life, while talking to Kenny Blake of the Super Heads Up Band, who gave  me a saxophone mouthpiece,  in a loud, but firm voice Sledge replied, what a great gift you are  exchanging  at the most Southern tip of Africa. That was the start of a friendship, that ended on 5 January 2021, when news broke of his passing. Sledge was an amazing gentleman, humble, caring, and had the ability to make one feel comfortable. He hosted a show Gister se Dinge, on Bush Radio which followed my show, with absolute passion and commitment. A big tree has fallen in the Cape Town entertainment world.”

Long-time Bush Radio Volunteer and entertainment industry professional, Calvin Peters said; “Sledge was larger than life and he had a phenomenal presence and aura that would literally fill a room.”

This week’s edition of Retro-Rewind (Sunday, 10 January 2021 from 10am to 2pm) will be dedicated to Sledge.

Send us your memories or stories about Sledge via whatsapp to 0618621065 or simply tune into 89.5fm or online.

* Video footage courtesy of Calvin Peters.

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