Over the next three weeks, the Bush Radio – Sakhisizwe team will be doing a series of outside broadcasts from various organisations that work hard to combat gender based violence and provide support to the communities they serve. Tune into Bush Radio daily for the broadcasts and how you can support their work as we bring the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence into focus.
The organisations Bush Radio will be broadcasting from:
Lihle Mbikwana from Bulungula Community Radio in the Eastern Cape got to spend some time at the station to learn more about the operations of Bush Radio.
Providing listeners in Cape Town and globally, with interesting and varied content is one part of the work done by Bush Radio.
As the oldest community radio station project in Africa, and known as the “Mother of Community Radio” we assist other community radio stations and organisations in navigating the media landscape and providing training.
* This is NOT a call for DJs, music show presenters or newsreaders *
Are you:
Interested in developing news that matters to the Cape Flats?
Curious, adventurous, always looking for a story, willing to hunt down a source, energetic?
Able to speak, write and read in English & Afrikaans or Xhosa?
Willing to explore new frontiers in media?
Able to work hard in a challenging environment?
Would you like to learn how to:
Record sound, conduct interviews, compile bulletins, read bulletins, take pictures, record video, cover events and test your skills LIVE to a listening and online audience of over 375 000 people.
Develop what it means to be journalist in a changing news environment?
If your answer to the above is yes, then a volunteer news trainee position in the Bush Radio newsroom is for you. (Download application form)
Things to pay attention to:
You will be required full-time with shifts (06h00 – 14h00 and 10h00 –18h00) – 5 days a week, including weekend and public holiday shifts.
You must be available to start immediately.
You will not receive payment! This is a full-time trainee position at Africa’s leading community radio station.
Transport allowance of R1500 per month for 3 months (probation).
Students attending class should not apply.
Candidates must be computer literate.
Candidates must be Cape Town based.
Understand, write and read English and one other language (Afrikaans or Xhosa)
Shortlisted candidates will be put through a combination interview, written test (for computer skills, language, general knowledge) and a voice test at a specified date.
In the subject line write: (name) and (surname) – Newsroom trainee November 2022
Email completed application form to news2022@bushradio.co.za
Application deadline: 27 November 2022 (no late applications will be considered)
Bush Radio reserves the right not to make an appointment – Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted – No correspondence will be entered into. If you have not been contacted within one week of the closing date you should consider your application unsuccessful.
This week Bush Radio is busier than usual. We started with a major service of our studios, starting with every piece of equipment getting taken out, dismantled, cleaned and repaired if necessary.
What this means is that we are broadcasting from our production studio.
The servicing team is under the guidance of Ebrahim Sampson from AB Technical Solution.
We guess you can call this the start of our “spring-cleaning”.
Jasnine Roberts hosting Sakhisizwe from the production studio.
The event is called “The People’s Airwaves” and is part of MAP’s series Beyond Borders; which brings global practitioners and experts in conversation with each other, reimagining the meaning and significance of borders by blurring the boundaries between different genres and media, and exploring people and spaces that cross imagined borders.
In support of #WorldNoTobaccoDay the Heart and Stroke Foundation South Africa came to do Health Risk Assessments #HRA for BushRadio trainees, staff and volunteers – because of the importance we did them even if we don’t like needles 🙂
From the protests, to fashion the Bush Radio news team brought us coverage from inside and outside the State of the Nation address. 2022 saw the first SONA outside of the Parliamentary precinct which was severely damaged in an alleged arson attack in January.
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