Come celebrate the festive season at the Bush Radio Summer Fest
Friday, 13 December 2019 at Bobs District Six from 8pm.
Performances by comedian Wayne McKay, Mr Meyer, Uncle Cal, Cazz, Tyrone Abrahams, Lusanda Juise, The only Aidy , Khanyisa Bonase and many others.
With many DJs to keep you on the dance floor.
Prizes to be won. Don`t miss out!
Tickets available via Computicket
Bush Radio volunteers, staff and board would like to express our condolences to the family of Sandile Dikeni who passed away today.
Besides his many roles as journalist, editor, poet and activist, Sandile was also and employee of the Cassette Education Trust (CASET) which was one of the founding organisations of Bush Radio.
When Bush Radio was formally established, Sandile became our first official employee.
We salute you Sandile, thank you for the inspiration and the words that help nourished the roots of Bush Radio.
GUAVA JUICE
shake shake my comrade
shake that invention of the working class
shake that unifying medicine before it’s too late
shake before the time come to pass
shake that guava juice
throw throw qabane
throw that liquid of capitalist invention
throw the blood of Ntsikane
throw before they see your intention
throw that guava juice
dance dance my hero
dance around the fire of resistance
dance at the success of your throw
dance because the dogs are still at a distance
dance for that guava juice
make make my young lion
make another guava juice
make another one as strong as iron
make many more until they beg for a truce
make those many guava juices
beg, beg you bastard
beg that your filthy skin be spared
beg that your blood does not flood
beg because we have many guava juices stored
beg those little dangerous guava juices
Bush Radio is recruiting energetic, creative and target-driven sales representatives to work in the Sales Department of the station.
Requirements:
A basic salary with a competitive commission on sales will be paid.
Closing date for application is Thursday, 7 November 2019 at 17h00.
No late applications will be considered.
Interviews will take place the week of 11 November 2019, and successful applicants will start ASAP.
Download, complete and email your application form to teamsales@bushradio.co.za
Applications should be clearly marked SALES REP JOB APPLICATION.
No telephonic enquiries will be accepted.
Applicants not contacted within two weeks after the closing date should consider their applications unsuccessful.
Bush Radio reserves the right not to make an appointment.
As we at Bush Radio fight to keep the station going financially through our crowdfunding campaign and engagements with government, we are concerned to learn of developments to close up to 43 community radio stations in South Africa.
The National Community Radio Forum (NCRF), of which Bush Radio is a founding member, today issued a press statement highlighting the plans of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) to shut down certain stations for various reasons.
Today we commemorate Black Wednesday 42 years ago – October 19, 1977 – when the apartheid government banned several newspapers, organisations and journalists.
Today, ICASA, an institution for which Bush Radio fought hard to be established, wants to shut down more than 40 community radio stations. The effect will be the same as then – limiting media freedom and alternative voices in the broadcast sector.
Bush Radio strongly urges our democratically elected government to intervene in this matter. We ask ICASA to look at a positive resolution to help secure the future of the community radio sector.
READ: Press Release: Shutdown of 43 Community Radio stations by ICASA
See below for the names of the stations affected.
The following is an extract from an article by Dan Corder for Africa is a Country.
“In the small meeting room buried deep within Bush Radio’s second-floor offices on Victoria Road in Salt River, central Cape Town, and lying alongside an ancient Zenith Trans-Oceanic analog radio are two maroon leather cases.
These cases are marked with the iconic golden dog and gramophone logo of His Master’s Voice, formerly the Victor Talking Machine Company. These cases contain original recordings of speeches, debates, poetry, and music performed by South African anti-apartheid activists—those deemed so dangerous that they were banned from gathering or speaking publicly by the then-government.”
If you would like to see us continue our work or have been touched by it please show your support through a contribution via our GIVEGAIN campaign or directly into our account:
Bank: Standard Bank
Account Name: Bush Radio
Account Number: 07 122 0194
Branch Name: Mowbray
Branch Code: 004909
Bank address: 37 – 39 Main Road, Mowbray, Western Cape, South Africa, 7700
SWIFT address: SBZA ZA JJ
Related:
Community Media demands to be heard
What Africa’s First Community Radio Project, Bush Radio, Needs
Desperate days for local papers, radio
Capetonians asked to help keep Bush Radio going
Bush Radio is opening applications for internship positions for those interested in getting into media. No prior formal qualification is required.
The internship will provide basic experience in journalism, radio content production and multimedia.
Please read the requirements below CAREFULLY – should the information be incomplete or incorrect, your application will not be considered.
Are you…
Curious, adventurous, always looking for a story, willing to hunt down a source, hungry to learn, energetic, able to speak, write and read in English & Afrikaans/Xhosa, willing to explore new frontiers in media?
Would you like to…
Record sound, conduct interviews, compile bulletins, read bulletins, take pictures, record video, cover events, test your skills LIVE to a listening and online audience of over 375 000 people, generate interview ideas, liaise with guests, assist presenter, research, package and present, liaise with listeners regarding programmes, updating blogs/websites, present as needed / capable, participate in outside broadcasts or events, build your career and profile?
Requirements:
No formal qualifications are required but the candidates must be computer literate and understand, write and read English and one other language (Afrikaans or Xhosa)
You will be required full-time (ie Monday – Friday) or shifts (06h00 – 14h00 and 10h00 –18h00 –including weekend and public holiday shifts depending on the area you are placed.
You must be available to start immediately.
Cape Town based
Not currently a full-time student or learner
You will not receive payment! This is a volunteer internship at Africa’s leading community radio station.
Transport allowance of R500 per month for 3 months (probation), increased to R 1000 thereafter, non-negotiable for 9 months.
Shortlisted candidates will be put through a combination written test (for computer skills, language, general knowledge) and a voice test. – If selected for the test it will happen the week of 23 September 2019
How to submit your application:
Only emailed applications will be considered.
Download and complete the CV Application, attach documentation (certificates etc) and email to intern2019@bushradio.co.za
In the subject line clearly state: Intern intake 2019 (Your Name + Surname)
Application deadline: 19 September 2019 (9am)
Download application (CLICK HERE)
Help Bush Radio keep making internship and training available to the communities of Cape Town – Support our crowdfunding campaign – CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE
Join us on Thursday, 12 September at 12pm on Sakhisizwe – Building the Nation – Bou die Nasie on Bush Radio 89.5FM / http://www.bushradio.co.za for a discussion with experts and community workers.
Be heard – SMS 32158 and Whatsapp 0618621065 now, or call the studio on 0214486266 on Thursday after 12pm.
Forty-seven people killed in one weekend. Two thousand people killed in the first half of this year.
These were just some of the statistics going around when the army was called in to help end gang violence on the Cape Flats.
Now they’re getting ready to leave, and it’s hard to measure how it helped.
Police Minister Bheki Cele says more than a thousand arrests, the Western Cape govt – using the mortuaries – says fewer people were killed, and the army calls the situation stable.
But how do we tackle decades of violence and its aftermath in three months?
It is time for long-term solutions for communities named as the most dangerous… Bishop Lavis, Mitchells Plain, Delft, Elsies River, Nyanga, Khayelitsha, Mfuleni, Philippi, Kraaifontein and Manenberg.
allAfrica.com and Bush Radio want to know what the next steps are, how to build the peace that we need in our communities, especially as the impact of gang violence, and the raw emotions around violence against women and xenophobic attacks are sweeping South Africa.
This morning during a scheduled engagement with the Community Media sector and the new Minister in the Presidency, Jackson Mthembu before his budget vote to Parliament, members of the sector handed a memorandum to the minister to highlight the current plight of community media.
The Minister felt that he was ambushed by the sector as he was under the impression that it was a simple “meet and greet”.
Below is the memorandum as it was issued.
MEMORANDUM TO THE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENCY, 17 July 2019
Community radio, print and TV sectors
Since the dawn of democracy in South Africa, the country has made impressive gains in the promotion of media diversity through support for emerging, small commercial newspapers and community broadcasting services serving the majority of the people who were previously excluded.
In the early 90’s media activists, many of whom are in this room today, fought for the establishment of the Media Development and Diversity Agency, tasked with the supporting community and independent media in South Africa. Since then the regulator has license over 200 community radio reaching an estimated audience of 8 million and 6 community TV stations reaching an estimated, collective audience of 14 million.
Community Newspapers by Independent publishers print in excess of 6 million copies per month with a readership that exceeds 20 million South Africans in all 11 official languages. Collectively the sector employs tens of thousands of previously disadvantaged individuals countrywide.
Unfortunately, in the last decade or so, these impressive gains have been rolled back as stations have struggled for survival in the face of weakened institutions (MDDA, GCIS and ICASA), state capture, government complacency and failed promises.
Year after year the sector attends “engagements” with the DoC, GCIS and the MDDA. Every year we regurgitate the same challenges and propose the same solutions. Every year the government and its agencies promise to address the issues and then nothing is done.
This year is different. The community media sector is on the verge of collapse with an estimated collective debt sitting at around R180 million. This is made up largely of debts to SAMRO & CARPASSO, SENTECH, SARS and rental. As we speak stations are being served eviction notices from their premises, retrenching staff and getting deeper into debt.
It makes no difference whether the MDDA and GCIS report to the DoC or to the Presidency, as long as something gets done. The sector simply cannot be allowed to fail.
We call upon the Presidency to implement the following immediate measures:
• Provide emergency relief funding to pay off the collective debt to SARS, SENTECH, SAMRO & CARPASSO (paid to stations or directly to debtors – to avoid CSD challenges) – R150 million for radio, R15 million for TV and R15 million for print.
• Increase MDDA budget to allow for annual grant for all community broadcasters and increased support for print publishers.
• Build MDDA capacity at board and operational level to speed up grant approval and disbursement.
• Implement the Parliamentary Portfolio Directive (Nov, 2011) to spend 30 % of government adspend on community media.
Additional measures to improve the sustainability of the sector are outlined in the full memorandum
On Thursday the 20th June 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered his State of the Nation address to the people of South Africa via Parliament.
As usual the Bush Radio team was at the sitting covering all aspects of the speech, from expectations of civil society and political parties, the fashion and the protests.
Here is a picture slideshow of some of the happenings:
Check out our instagram for more videos and pictures.
The first State of the Nation Address in this new term of Parliament is scheduled to take place on Thursday, 20 June 2019.
What do you want the President to address in his State of the Nation address?
*Bush Radio will be bringing you live coverage and analysis of the speech.
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