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Community radio in post-apartheid South Africa: The case of Bush Radio in Cape Town
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Bosch, Tanja E. |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Community radio station Bush Radio is nestled at the foot of Table Mountain in Cape Town. When a child goes missing, broadcasts are immediately interrupted with urgent calls to the public until the child is found. On Mondays Positive Living takes radio into the high schools with its outside broadcast unit, facilitating frank discussions about sex and HIV. The continent’s only gay talk show airs on Thursdays, and on Saturdays children as young as 5 years old broadcast from the on-air studio. During the recent war in Iraq, Bush Radio printed several hundred T-shirts sporting the eye-catching slogan “Bush against war”, organized anti-war protest marches in the city center, and suspended programming. As station director Zane Ibrahim said |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.transformationsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Bosch_Transformations10.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
