Today marks Zane Ibrahim’s 73rd birthday – we have been receiving many tributes to him via our Facebook group and from emails sent to the station from around the world since we announced his passing – including from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and local tabloid Die Son.
Bush Radio would also like to thank Voice of the Cape and Radio 786 for helping to spread the word of Zane’s passing.
Many people have been asking about a memorial for Zane and we are consulting with his family as to how to best celebrate Zane’s life and will post details once these have been finalised.
We thought we’d share a few of the messages that have come to us and the tributes paid to Zane via other media. Click on the pictures to view the original post.
Zane Ibrahim jets in to become Radio Fast Train guest of honour
10 years of community radio – and the women who got me started
Community radio in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Bush Radio in Cape Town
Bush Radio’s Zane Ibrahim detained and interrogated for 12 hours at US airport
US agents grill Cape radio man
Zane Ibrahim of Bush Radio in Belfast
Community radio is ninety percent about community and ten percent about radio
Tarzan doesn’t live here any more
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25/06/2014 at 12:53 AM |
Zane will be around a long time for everyone who knew him. That is a heck of a lot of people! He impacted on the lives of a rising generation of kids from townships in CapeTown, kids who travelled each week to Bush Radio to put their own youth magazine on air as well as the very young who took part in a Saturday morning show at the station. His mission to make the voices of young people heard became an unforgettable message at international youth media conferences, and the territory he claimed for them in the evolving field of radio has since then been tilled, sown and reaped by young men and women who now work as broadcasters on air, on the Internet and on tv. Zane was a change-maker who inspired not only by his personal warmth and humour, but also by uncompromising leadership and deep inner conviction. His directive to Bush Radio in the days following 9/11/2001 was that the station should play “Give Peace a Chance” – non-stop. He nurtured diversity while whole-heartedly embracing unity.
01/02/2015 at 12:55 AM |
[…] Ibrahim was the station manager of a popular community radio station in South Africa called Bush. My company had been designing most of their print media (below-the-line) requirements at the time. […]
09/04/2015 at 6:58 PM |
[…] the monthly Open Forum meeting tonight (9 April 2015) it was announced that the 2014 Zane Ibrahim Volunteer of the Year award goes to the entire team of The Dank!sh which is broadcast every […]
26/02/2017 at 6:43 PM |
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