In a world filled with fake news, we stand out from the crowd in our efforts to provide readers with honest and authentic news. We gladly partner with like-minded media outlets, such as our sister publication, Devoted Magazine. Today, the spotlight is on Radio Khwezi in KwaZulu-Natal.
The value of community radio lies in the fact that it improves its community’s livelihood. It plays a significant role at a grassroots level for rural development, speaks to its listeners in their language, helps to build a sense of community and, most importantly, informs and uplifts its listeners. Community radio informs its listeners about what is happening globally and provides information that helps them formulate informed opinions.
Radio Khwezi is a success story par excellence and lives up to its motto, “Changing lives, giving hope”. Their vision is to “uplift communities and to improve their lives”. As one of South Africa’s most successful and largest rural community radio stations, they broadcast to over 100,000 listeners. The station serves the North Coast and KwaZulu-Natal Midlands.
Khwezi’s content is a unique local flavour of languages, culture, and content, which the listeners will receive well. The content and broadcastings represent high-quality regional, national, and international standards, and the station’s essence is built on Christian values.
Khwezi not only provides information but is active in skills development. Mmangaliso Zuma, a young presenter who joined the station late in 2020, is an excellent example of the skills development and knowledge transfer the radio station engages in. She is on air from Monday to Friday between 11:00 and 14:00, and it is clear that she enjoys what she does. She is incredibly passionate about empowering women and enthusiastically explains the station’s efforts to inform and educate women by including exciting topics with great educational value in the programmes. These topics include childcare, recipes, and a range of exciting topics that allow interaction between the presenters, guests, and listeners.
Mmangaliso is very good at her job, almost as if she was born with a microphone in her hand! She did not have formal training as a broadcaster – the station trained her on the job. She says, “I am grateful for the high level of training and assistance I receive from the station to empower me to do what I like to do best – inform and educate my community members.”
Radio Khwezi (Morning Star in Zulu) is a non-profit radio station with roots in serving the rural communities in which it operates. It is based at the KwaSizabantu Mission (KSB) and receives tremendous support from the Mission.
Read the full story in our sister publication, Devoted, Issue 33 online: www.devotedmag.co.za
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